The leaves are back


Question of the Day: What Color Feels Most Like Spring to You?

Thought of the Day: The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. - Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Good Morning Reader,

Some seasons arrive loudly.

Spring usually sneaks in.

One day the trees are bare, and the next they’re glowing with that bright green that almost doesn’t look real against a blue sky. You realize the windows are open again. Kids are outside later. People linger a little longer in conversations.

Today’s Thought of the Day is about paying attention before life slips past us. About how mindfulness may simply be learning to fully live inside the moments we already have.

Read: Paying Attention Is a Way of Loving the Moment

Today’s Question of the Day asks something lighter:

What color feels like spring to you?

For me, it’s the bright green of fresh leaves after a long winter.

Read: What Color Feels Like Spring to You?

Stay Golden,
Ken


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