Primaverita

After a duration of time that felt like 6 months, the snow and ice are finally starting to melt. The past couple days have revealed grass. Grass! A sight I didn't know I missed until it appeared. So today I am declaring the "primaverita" which is a word I made up to mean the "little spring". It just sounds prettier in made-up spanish.

It seems fitting. There is melting snow and sunshine. Target stores are now selling bikinis and beach clothes. And there is grass. Dry sidewalks.

And in my heart I sense a change as well. A melting off of the dirty, stained cold that covered my heart. A revealing of tender flesh. A warm renewal. I will soak up this sunny primaverita and keep it with me for the long winter months still to come.

This is a verse from one of my favorite songs, Every Season by Nicole Nordeman:
"And what was frozen through, is newly purposed, turning all things green;
So it is with you, and how you make me new, with every seasons change..."