As the afternoon of Monday reached the fateful 3:30 mark the vehicles of parents
lined the streets near the Elementary school and soon students began making their
way to the cars, trucks and many toward home while others mounted buses to take them
away after their day at school. To what?
 We always
consider spring a time of promise, a time when we look ahead at what will come and
reflect on what has just passed. As these young people dodge the puddles and work
their way along, what are their great expectations? You can bet its far more immediate
then the horizon of an adult, as we have seen many springs come and go but when you
are in your tenth and eleventh spring or less, it seems like the door is opening
on something entirely new, never seen or experienced before. Time to find the ball
and glove or perhaps play some street hockey to celebrate the passing of another
hockey season. Time to make a kite, build a bridge and damn in the back yard and
time to dream of the long hot days of summer.
 When you think
about it, you immediately realise that the kids have it right, it is a new opportunity
the days and weeks to come will never come again and we had better make the best
of them. The geese and ducks have still not made it this far North but the Ravens
are all pretty excited about the warmth of the sun and it will not be long before
the trees catch on as well and begin their annual process. With the snow clearing
from the fields there will be yet more grass to mow and weeds to attack, mosquitos
to hatch and frogs to croak. |
