I know I have declared Spring about six times before but this time I really mean it. Today was a beautiful day and it seems that all of Charlottesville was infected with Spring fever. Today Clint and I ventured out to the campus without our coats on. The temperature was hovering right around 60 and everyone was outside. On the campus we had several choices of impromptu sporting events to watch. In the shadow of Jefferson's great Rotunda there was soccer, catch and (the one we settled on) ultimate Frisbee. We sat in the glorious sun (I know- glorious sounds a bit like an over statement, but after a cold dark winter it really is the only way to describe it!) on the green grass and watched people throwing the Frisbee, waking their dogs and eating picnic lunches. We saw a new smoker try four times to light his cigarette in the wind and then pay careful attention to it as he read the newspaper, switching hands eight times and coming close to accidentally putting it out on a woman walking by. We saw two blondes eating (trying to eat) sushi with chopsticks. We saw a dad trying to teach his young son how to fly a kite while I hummed the song "Let's go Fly a Kite" and even after they had given up and gone home I was stuck with that song in my head for the rest of the afternoon. Spring, it seems, is about the end of being alone in your house trying to keep warm. It is about rejoining society and about the fact that although things might appear dead for awhile, they are never past resurrection! I have never been more ready for Spring.