The past two days of warm weather in DC seem to have lifted everyone's spirits. It strikes me that it is so appropriate for Easter to be in springtime. The chorus from the Easter hymn "Now the Green Blade Riseth" is running through my head: "Love has come again/ like wheat that springeth green."
Renewal and hope are in the air at springtime. I've been told that the original reason for Easter's timing was competition with a "pagan" fertility festival (that's why the bunnies and eggs), and that festival is in fact the origin of the name of the holiday, but the timing seems appropriate to me. It's also linked historically to Passover, when the gospels record Jesus' death and resurrection taking place.
The most unfortunate timing, on the other hand, is for folks who abstain from dessert for Lent, which always overlaps Girl Scout cookie time!
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