The World Grows

Easter has always been for me a day about family and plants. When I was younger, I attended a Quaker meeting and that's how I still identify myself. One of my favorite traditions of this meeting was that every Easter, they would give each of us kids a marigold. I did my best to try and keep that plant alive and blooming. So it feels like a wonderful reminder that the walking iris which is grown from a huge plant my parents own keeps on blooming and is blooming today.

I just spoke on the phone to my parents who are visiting my brother in France and it was lovely. Later I might make the scone mix they sent me in a package but probably not just yet.

I was going to head out for a lovely lunch made by someone else as I realized that not a lot of places are actually going to be open today. Instead bacon and egg sandwiches for me and then putting my head down and finishing my paper. At this point what it needs is lots of additions in terms of sources, which can be a little boring but will connect it to larger conversations. My hope is to get it done with time to spare for editing to make it flow nicely and I'm also not fretting about length. At this point I'm pretty sure I'm more than halfway to the length I need and adding context will just help with that.

I hope everyone is enjoying this day and Spring appears.