Sailing down the road on your bike, conversation drowned out by returning geese, throwing open the door and letting the sun and wind into your home, the return of the sound of rushing water (sounding like a 1000 old ladies!), it no longer taking five minutes to get on your "tons of clothes," and feeling so different that "in winter you must have been barely alive." Siberry perfectly describes how I feel each spring. The only thing missing in this song is the feeling of wearing lightweight shoes out on the street, in place of your heavy winter boots.
You have to live in a frigid, wintery clime to understand what it means for spring to return. We're not quite there yet, but on Sunday we got a little taste, with sunny skies and above 0 temps. And when I was serving people at cash, they were all cheerful, just like Jane Siberry sings: "People are like flowers: They blossom in the sun."
My family out west gets to laugh at me now that I'm the only one living in the extreme climate of Montreal, but I tell you... if happiness relates to an experience being relatively rare, not being a constant in your life... then I'll be a whole hell lot happier than them come April! Yippy!!
And so, in anticipation of that great event: Jane Sibery's "When Spring Comes." Posted by me, because someone had to do it. laaa laa la la la la la laaaa
