Though I prayed and prayed and prayed, Jack Frost didn\u2019t visit and deliver snow on this Easter. Thankfully, one summer years ago snow did line the hills of this city, and that is a memory I treasure.<\/p>\n
Instead, this Easter is hot and dry and causing me to regret my clothing choices, but at least I\u2019m no longer fool enough to wear black. Spring is in full swing, and summer is readying itself to pounce. I know that Easter is all about new beginnings, new life, and hope (if we go by what E. Aster Bunnymund from Rise of the Guardians<\/em> wants us to think), but it\u2019s always felt like the last hurrah before the crushing heat sets in. Maybe, if we\u2019re really lucky, we\u2019ll get some rain before the heat really takes over.<\/p>\n Still, in the kitchen my family is dying eggs. We have buckets of candy. The kids are shrieking and running around with toys. I\u2019m pretty sure I\u2019m the only one that detests the heat like I do. Everyone else is glad the cold is done and gone.<\/p>\n I used to resent this season. It reminds me exactly how much I don\u2019t belong where I am and need cold, rain, wet, green \u2013 not dry, heat, bright, sand. But I\u2019m trying to cultivate an appreciation for Easter, thanks to all the pop culture and fictional veneration I\u2019m doing, and that starts every day I wake up and especially today. We have eggs. We have way too much food. We\u2019re blessed. There\u2019s hope in the air for the rest of the year. There\u2019s change and possibility.<\/p>\n So, I give thanks for today, thanks for the blessings we\u2019ve been given, and thanks for a giant alien rabbit that my brother adores. (And I do too, I admit.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Though I prayed and prayed and prayed, Jack Frost didn’t visit and deliver snow on this Easter. Thankfully, one summer years ago snow did line the hills of this city, and that is a memory I treasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1128,"featured_media":240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,6,4],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fiction","tag-pagan","tag-polytheism"],"yoast_head":"\n