It is a capricious spring weather week here for us; I laid on the porch and watched snow, wind, sunshine, snow, white-out, wind, sun, fog, and big-flaked straight down snow – again. It has been unseasonably cold for this time of year – again. And it’s that time again.
But when I hear the news, I am happy we have food, clothes, heat – and a house we don’t need to leave because tanks are rolling up the road.
Time is swift, everything changes, yet so much remains the same. A year ago, we watched the start of a vicious war – and still it goes on. 
It is sad that always, there is war, invasion, fighting. There are self-serving tyrants that will not allow others to live peaceably. There are fools that run toward anarchy, just because it is there. 
But when the worst shows up, it also brings out the best. Large and small acts of kindness and aid are everywhere. Lots of prayers.
Among the changes of time, this weekend; Daylight Savings Time means the clock gets turned ahead one hour. It seems a silly thing in these times, to worry about what we call the hour. I’ve never understood how changing what you call it “saves daylight.” 
Seems to this dog that we get the same moments of sunshine and moonlight, pre-determined by God – no matter what it is called.
But mercifully, this time of year, those moments are ever-increasing in light. I like earlier mornings and long sunsets.
Daylight saving time returns to the U.S. on Sunday and is scheduled to end in early November as usual — unless Congress decides it’s time for a change. A proposal to end the decades-old practice of making Americans change their clocks twice a year is again being considered in Washington DC.
Under the measure, daylight saving time would be made permanent, so that most Americans would shift their clocks one hour forward Sunday and leave them that way. As it stands now, those clocks will need to be shifted back an hour on the first Sunday of November, when standard time resumes. Doesn’t matter what we call it, that time of year it is just plain dark a lot!
No matter what you call it, the daylight hours are stretching further now, pushing dawn and dusk further into the night, bringing more sunshine.
It is exciting to know soon it will get warmer, we will go from snow to mud, the hills will grow green.
Whatever we have, whatever we call it – make the most of the time you have. This old dog will make the most of sunshine time on the porch.
