{"id":3443,"date":"2025-01-02T17:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=3443"},"modified":"2025-01-02T17:03:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T00:03:59","slug":"walk-in-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=3443","title":{"rendered":"Walk in Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The world&#8217;s favorite season is the spring,\u201d wrote Edwin Teale (<em>North with the Spring<\/em>, 1951). \u201cAll things seem possible in May.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a hundred years earlier, another American naturalist, Henry David Thoreau, took the same view. He said that we find in spring \u201cthe principle of renewal of the eternal\u2014the year beginning with younger hope than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thoreau believed that \u201cnature has no history; its memory goes back a year and no more.\u201d He said that likewise the spring walker has no history, &#8220;no baggage too heavy for the journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I say Thoreau was half right. I wish my baggage would disappear once a year. It doesn\u2019t. But if it did, other loads would replace it. However, I am a believer in spring, both as a season and a metaphor. The melting snow, budding trees and returning birds send a strong message of hope, and drinking it in on spring walks reminds me God is continually renewing what the winter has taken.<\/p>\n<p>*In the next blog, I\u2019ll write about walking in summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The world&#8217;s favorite season is the spring,\u201d wrote Edwin Teale (North with the Spring, 1951). \u201cAll things seem possible in May.&#8221; Nearly a hundred years earlier, another American naturalist, Henry David Thoreau, took the same view. He said that we find in spring \u201cthe principle of renewal of the eternal\u2014the year beginning with younger hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3446,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions\/3446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}