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The Constant Amid the Change

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Happy Meteorological Spring!

In case you missed it, March 1 was the first day of meteorological spring, which is not to be confused with astronomical spring, which starts on the vernal equinox, which this year will fall on March 19 at 11:06 p.m. EDT. (How impressed are you with my ability to find semi-useless facts online?)

I like the notion of meteorological seasons. Unlike astronomical seasons—the ones where the first and last day shift every year—the meteorological seasons are regular and predictable. Forget the first robin or the first daffodil. I don’t need research to discover when meteorological spring will begin, because March 1 is March 1, and that’s all I need to know.

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Changing Times

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Thirty-two years ago today, I came home from a temp job. Shortly after I got home, my parents pulled up, and my father put on a backpack as they walked across the yard from the parking area to my door.

Let me back up a bit.

Two days earlier, on Saturday, June 30, 1990, I moved my piano into my new apartment on in a three-family house on Main Street. The next day, my family and friends moved all my stuff from my apartment in Stamford to the new apartment. My friend, Scott, stuck around long enough to help me spread out the living room rug. Then, they all left, and it was just the cats and me.

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Changes, Maybe

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Some people adore change. They embrace it. They find it exhilarating. They love to mix things up, add elements and remove bits, expand and refine, in a passionate swirl of experiences that are never the same twice.

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