Wind Blows Deeply

I’m sure I have heard his stuff before but last night it was like listening to City and Colour (aka Dallas Green) again for the first time. Sort of amazing too … to slip into a new melody that feels exactly like slipping into your favourite pair of jeans. He’s coming to the city at the end of May and I have a feeling there might be a few folks I know in the audience.

It’s funny how the first full day of spring has come back on itself. I commented to someone today that this morning felt like forever ago; Truly much has happened since then. But spring started with snow and is now finally ending itself in snow.

With spring sprung, the season of regrowth and renewal upon us, it seems fitting that things should come full circle. We’ll see how it goes. Only time will tell.

Other great ones
Mobile Desktop
Look Up More
Frozen Grand Central
Cell Phone Symphony

Easter this year is Sunday, March 23. As you may know; Easter is always the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20).

This “dating of Easter” is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew people used to identify Passover, which is why it moves around on our Roman calendar.

Here are a couple of things you might be interested in:
::Based on the above, Easter can actually only be one (1) day earlier – March 22, but that is pretty rare.
.The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285 – 277 years from this year.
.The last time it was on March 22 was 1818.
::This year is the earliest Easter any of us will ever see the rest of our lives!
.The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year 2228 – 220 years from this year!
.The last time it was this early was 1913 so, if you’re 95 or older, you are the only ones that were around for that!

So, no one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than this year! No wonder I feel ill-prepared.

ad•vent (n): arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)

Tonight I took down my Christmas tree. Boxed up my nativity set. Put the twinkly lights back in a knotted mess. Vacuumed the glitter from the carpet.

Yes, it is March. Also nearly five months to the day that I placed these things throughout my living room. I knew that when they went up in November it would be March before they came down. Preparing for and being in Africa took up the better part of the last two months.

Now it is two weeks before Easter. The other advent. Another long awaited piece of the story. I am not sure I am prepared for this one. Without observing Lent this year, it’s crept up without much notice. And there is something to be said for preparation [Esther 2:12].