Just a little green

There is this great Joni Mitchell song...ok, ok.  Bare with me here.  I have a point.

Anyway, there is this great Joni Mitchell song.  In it she says, "Just a little green, like the color when the spring is born".  Can't you see it!  Oh!

Today, the little green is here and it hasn't been easy.  As I look out upon the barely new leaves I can't help thinking how hard it must be for them to even get to this point.  "when the spring is born".  

Birth isn't easy.  For anyone.  Let's just settle that once and forever.

Strangely enough our longing for spring's arrival hinders our understanding of the inner workings of this particular season.  "It just happened.  Spring came over night." Like magic.  Right?  We fail to realize how much energy it takes to push a single leaf out of a stem or branch.  The ruff core hides the hardworking flesh beneath. But in the end it's worth all the labor because the leaf provides the plant with energy.  It's survival.

I've been writing a song recently that has me stuck (hence the blog) mostly because I know how important it is going to be for me to write and complete.  Songwriting is so cathartic for me that I often feel selfish. 

Who needs therapy?  Just write songs!  

It's survival.

I've been pushing and working, losing sleep, walking around like a zombie, feeling bare branched and frustrated.  I'm willing to go through the pain of labor just to have the product.

And I know that birth is inevitable.  It has to come.  Soon?  Please!  

Here's to birth!  Here's to spring!