The weather in Edinburgh has been stunning for the last few days – strong sunshine and unexpectedly warm temperatures. That combined with the Easter weekend has been enough to signal the arrival of spring. The burst of human activity - lawns cut, front doors painted, houses going up for sale – that accompanies the amazing surge of energy, growth and new life that we see all around us in the natural world.
I was looking for a few words that would express the optimism, the relentlessness, the astonishing redemptive power of the spring. This quote from Pablo Neruda captures it for me:
"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."
Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, I hope you can find the space to enjoy the arrival of the spring.