It's spring today

I’m smelling spring. In the scent of the Japanese cherry trees blossoming nearby. I smell them in the flowers in the grass. And just in the air, when the wind is right and I am looking in the right direction. And I feel it in my body.

If you are a little bit like me (an optimist? A very naïve person? A complete nutcase?) perhaps you also feel another Spring arriving. A bigger Spring. Perhaps you are noticing how, slowly but surely, another time is approaching. A time of more consciousness, more softness, more compassion, more wisdom. A time in which we finally succeed at telling the important from the unimportant. It started recently, with a small group of people . Right now, it’s catching up speed. And soon we are a waterfall that can no longer be stopped.

And yet… spring, today, is no longer obvious. Predicting the weather is more difficult every day. Years ago, Rachel Carson wrote about a “silent spring”, one without birdsong, and perhaps without cherry blossoms. The predictions for the future are dire and nothing is sure.

But of course spring will keep coming! Of course the birds keep singing! Of course the blossoms will keep bringing us joy every year. Of course that big Spring is coming. Because you and I are working for it! Together, we eat our way to another time in a new world. The fork, as Gandhi said, is the mightiest weapon on the world.

So grab your weapon! It’s up to us.

Let’s promise each other a wonderful spring!
Enjoy your meal