It’s a beautiful brilliant blue day outside after several days of overcast chilliness. I like the Easter story, which always somehow also reminds me of Persephone, emerging from the Underworld to bring spring to the above-ground. The sunshine, the flowers blooming, and my birthday coming up: it does feel a little like we are emerging from something, doesn’t it, every April?

Yesterday we took my folks to the San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal park. We got to see a six-week-old cheetah. You just have to love baby cheetah cubs. And it’s really hard to be depressed looking at meerkats. Yes, I should have stayed with my zoological interests and become a zoo biologist, I sometimes think. There were also many great egrets building nests in the trees around the park, zooming overhead.

Also, I was able to write a couple of poetry fragments – beginnings and bits of poems – that I felt happy with. I seem to be writing longer poems lately, a bit at a time.

Anyway, here’s wishing you at least one chocolate Easter bunny and a bright pink bunch of rununculus. (Marshmallow peeps half-price tomorrow!)