Spring is here

Winter 2008 passed…it was a harsh winter…not because the frigid wind or the deep cold snow…but because it was full of fear. It felt like I was in the middle of the arctic waters standing solitary…like a polar bear facing something as incomprehensible as global warming. Did not know for sure if I was going to sink under the thin ice…I was afraid to move…the fear took over me...I felt desperation...I felt abandoned. Every night I prayed to God…deep inside me it is the strength that carried me all these past years. Now my job is busy…running in my little motor vehicle around the farm, getting out trees for my customers, I perceive the changes around me…I see the yellows, pinks and reds of nature coming out slowly and magnificent… I see the birds, also busy, building their nest for the new life to come; I see life…it is all around me. Still lonesome, in the middle of thousands of my same specie, I begin to bring all my dreams back. I begin to believe my dreams some day will come true. The winter passed…the spring arrived.