This is the time of year when Major League Baseball’s Spring Training Sessions are in full swing. Florida and Arizona are both abuzz with tourists who travel there to watch the teams as they play their preseason games.
This time of year is full of promise for every team. Before the regular season games start, everyone is on equal ground. Every team has the potential to win it all at the World Series this coming October. Every team made trades and player acquisitions from the Free Agency Market in order to help them improve their performance over and above the previous season’s records of wins and losses. Each team has confidence and hope for the new regular season and expectations of doing well and making the playoffs.
There are about two and a half weeks until the regular season games start. Right now the teams have been playing these meaningless preseason games for about three weeks. This is the point when the players start to become anxious to get on with the regular season and get to the business of playing in games that truly count. They feel prepared and ready to go, but the league and its owners have been doing this a long time. They know from experience that even though today’s athlete’s arrive at camp well conditioned from their offseason routines, the more that the players are eased into the long season and build upon their playing time gradually, the more likely those players are to stay healthy, barring of course some accident like twisting an ankle, a wrist or a knee while sliding into a base or crashing into a wall, etc.
Most of us fans are also ready for the season to begin. Fortunately for the players who are on the verge of a long season, we will all have to wait.
In the mean time, while we’re waiting, did anyone notice that spring is upon us? The green on the tips of the trees are beginning to show. I saw forsythia bushes in full bloom, their bright yellow coloring triumphantly announcing the arrival of early spring to our area. I realize that some of you are living in areas that are not quite so advanced toward spring as of yet, but, the snow is disappearing and March is coming to an end and hopefully will hold true to form as “Out like a lamb.”
It is easy for us to focus on what the next major thing in our little world is, but this all too often happens at the expense of appreciating where we are right now. We need not look beyond our moment to see the blessings that our lives hold, because in life, something is always in bloom. Blessings!

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