Well, it’s mid-April and Sunday is Easter so I guess it’s Spring now?
I mean, it’s kind of cold and definitely raining and gray and generally “blah” outside, but here I am looking at the calendar and yup…definitely Spring.
I usually count Easter as the beginning of Springtime, likely because of my early indoctrination into the Catholic Church. I left such organizations many years ago, but I still hold a little solemnity for the Easter Season, from Palm Sunday (when Jesus rode into town on a donkey,) to Good Friday, at least . Today is Holy Thursday, for those not in the know. Dinner Party Day, as I like to call it, but most scholars refer to it as The Last Supper, when Jesus gave his apostles the sacrament of the holy communion. It is “celebrated” by some guy at church washing the feet of other guys at church. Tomorrow is Good Friday, where nothing good happened, and they crucified a dude for wanting to help the poor, sick, and needy. (Same sh*t, different millennia, amiright?) This is celebrated with the Stations of the Cross, which is like an art showing with a terrible audiobook playing in the background. Then Holy Saturday…which is just a weird one. See, the apostles held a vigil outside of Jesus’ tomb that day, waiting for his resurrection. Apparently, they stayed all day, yet still somehow no one was there the next morning to see Jesus come strutting out. No, Easter morning was when “the women” (including Jesus’ wife, but whatever, Catholic Church,) arrived and found that he was already gone. Yay Easter! A celebration of a gruesome death followed by slight confusion! Wait no…we’re celebrating the resurrection part. At least, that’s according to my 12th grade Religion teacher.
But as I said, I’m done with all that.
So instead, I think of my garden. I just cleaned it out and got it ready, and now I need to do a little weeding and lay some new mulch, and some greenery is already starting to show. My front lawn is a mud pit, so that will take more time, and the trees remain bare, but I know it is coming. I know one day soon I will look out the window and see grass and leaves and sunshine, not this windy, cloudy, terrible day I see right now. After all, April showers do bring May flowers.
So, next week, I guarantee no update for Monday because I am having cataract surgery on my right eye. If I think of it on Sunday I might write, but don’t expect anything. I will hopefully be back Thursday to tell you all about it. In the meantime, I’d appreciate if you took to literally any of my socials and watched the video I made today for my piece “Garbage.” It recently lost it’s home, and instead of finding it a new one, I have built a house for it on my TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. So, I ask you to check it out (@hamneggs716) and share it or like it or leave a comment, because I am letting this little guy fly free out there and it needs all the love it can get.
So do i. And well wishes, too. Big week ahead.
Anyway, that’s all for today. Happy Monday, my friends.
Ham 'N Eggs 