RMP Magazine | March 2021

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young man high approached me in in a parking he average temperature lot yesterday. March in northern Colorado is in the andApril, I are staying over upper“My 50s.family And by it will be in there60s. andWe’ll if westart couldhaving get fivedays dollars weupper could the in the get aLife pizza. we could ten we 60s. willIfflood onto get porches andcould yardsget and two the and parks that would coverWe us.”won’t be out of into once again. I had notunnel idea whether hiswhile storyyet, wasbut true. the COVID for a little the Hewill looked he was rough, air startastothough be fresher, the living light more natural. cheeks, despairing eyes. Ithough—gaunt, can almost feel sunken the warmth. Without I pulled my wallet We’rehesitation, realistic though. Weout know that grass and handed him tenApril bucks. I don’t just why did it. won’t green up until and trees know won’t bud untilIMay, butHe wewasn’t also threatening. He wasn’t He just really a know that crocuses will over pushimploring. up this month. Theseemed sun willtopass theneed equinox boost right interacting withour himnights. right there a couple of feet and our daysthen will and become longer than away,We’re I justemerging felt it wasfrom a moment. the long, dark winter into the brightening It’sI not I’m on a mission away all And of our money. I walk spring. havethat wanted to write that to forgive a long time. I’m starting to and it. drive plenty of people whoup. areWe’ve asking for aitlittle push. And I’m feel We by have to keep our guard made this far. It all seems not driven to when help others sense of guilt or even of being easier though we canbygoa for a walk or talk to oura feeling neighbors over a lucky at enough have itbut andclose these otherstodon’t and so therefore it’s my fence a safe to distance enough see each other smile and catch social obligation dowinter. it. Nor do I get a big sense of satisfaction. I have up after the long, to long a hard timelooking pinpointing whytoward I feel compelled to help out sometimes, We’re positively the near future. You can find our whetherCamp scooping a sidewalk for aofneighbor orTurns stopping to push a car, annual Guide in the center this issue. out that parents otherare times not so much. and kids ready, willing and able to go to camp this summer and fall, are a neighbor of ours comes by iswith his air great compressor campEvery providers gearing up. The challenge to provide camp and blows out sprinkler Heasmakes theCheck roundsout in the ourguide to experiences andour keep everyonelines. as safe possible. corner of neighborhood and gets everyone ready for winter. He explore thethe possibilities. doesn’t for isanything. He justthe does it because can. It This is notmay a Andask what spring without ritual of springhe cleaning. transactional offer inspring any way. be the year to elevate cleaning from a ritual to celebration! In the Theresa Baer writesLea thisHanson month in heryou Learn Live column Healthy Living column, takes on aand journey to a healthy about teaching children to attitude be generous and cleaners. to volunteer. She also offers spring clean with the right and safe someAnd ideas where and how. The help children to be you forabout a great family activity, Leaidea takesisatoswoop at introducing aware of family others’to needs and What to understand they,for themselves, have to and your birding. a perfectthat activity the entire family something offer. get outdoorstoand get in touch with nature. She talks about where to find them, all of us, to not just do generosity as an birdsThe andgoal howistofor make it areally fun game. activity to understand something Andthat nowwe forhave the come big enchilada. Isn’t it as time to hit thethat roadweforshould a do because we’reWe lucky enough something and those other family vacation? all just wanttotohave get out of our slowly collapsing peopleand are onto struggling. Where headed with how this is spaces the open road.we’re Lynnreally Nichols discusses to for get our away children via to see people who justhas likesome theyideas are, who justone-day want toouting. be together air and land. Sheare even for the happy they do and who and don’tsoak want badsun justasasyou they don’t Sojust chinasup, breathe deeply uptoasfeel much can. want to.isWe want to get beyondbythe them and just Spring almost here, followed a summer thatusI feelings. hope we We can don’t all revel drop money in a can and walk about by. Wewhat stop.this Wewonderful talk and engage with in with a renewed appreciation life offers us. people just like us. Be who safe. are Be well. In the end, we want to be generosity, not just do generosity, though Scott the path to being generosity, it seems, lies through the path of doing generosity. ‘Tis the season, Scott

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