{"id":223,"date":"2007-03-21T13:06:47","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T10:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/21\/spring-is-in-the-air\/"},"modified":"2007-03-21T13:06:47","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T10:06:47","slug":"spring-is-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/21\/spring-is-in-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring is in the air"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spring isn’t a season. It’s a state of mind. I don’t know how to make it appear, but suddenly on a day like today with the sun shining and my garden newly planted with summer annuals and the trees in bud and the birds singing, my heart lifts and the feeling of clean, fresh renewal fills me with happiness.<\/p>\n

This hasn’t beeen a good week. Someone we knew <\/a>and appreciated was killed in a car accident. Someone else we knew died suddenly. We found out about the serious illness of yet another acquaintance. It has been, in short, a sad week. <\/p>\n

But then, after the rain comes the sunshine once again, and it was a week when I accompanied my youngest to the doctor for a pregnancy checkup and a week when the details of the China trip are being firmed up and a week when my own Chinese-style garden is taking on that springlike look as the lemon blossoms are ready to pop open.<\/p>\n

It was a week like every other as I move through life and realize that there is sadness and joy and both are legitimate parts of the experience of being human. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spring isn’t a season. It’s a state of mind. I don’t know how to make it appear, but suddenly on a day like today with the sun shining and my garden newly planted with summer annuals and the trees in bud and the birds singing, my heart lifts and the feeling of clean, fresh renewal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t