Spring Pleasures...

[Kyra.Graves]

Each spring I eagerly await the lilacs coming into bloom, it reminds me of my childhood; Easter, Mother's Day, spring trips for ice cream and walking through the park. My mother used to wrap the most beautiful gifts in all white wrapping paper, white ribbon and fresh lilacs cut from the garden and put on top, she'd give them for weddings, bridal and baby showers or spring birthdays and I would stare at those packages with their bright purple flowers and think about how lucky I would be to receive one of those.
My birthday was in the fall and every fall I would wake up hoping I'd see that white wrapped present with the white ribbon and fresh lilacs and each year I'd see some brightly wrapped gift with my favourite Disney character or some equally busy print and I'd smile and tear it open but it never smelled of lilacs and it never held the same charm or mystery that those all white boxes did. It is not to say I was disappointed with fall but I was forever enchanted by the spring and it's beautiful spring flowers, it's new and wondrous scents and the mysterious and elegant little boxes that the season was associated with.

Now spring has come again and I find myself waiting eagerly for the lilacs to bloom, waiting for all the beauty of spring to arrive and anxiously anticipating that scent to fill the air.
What spring pleasures do you anticipate?

I am available this week and next week and can host downtown or at the airport with advance notice and appropriate verification or would visit you at your hotel throughout the GTA. I am also available for both domestic and international private travel, for more information please visit my website or send me an email.

I look forward to meeting you!

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[Kyra.Graves]

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
~Charles Dickens, Great Expectations​

I was out with a friend on Sunday, we went for brunch and wandered around talking and catching up. We hadn't seen each other for almost a year and we walked around for at least an hour just talking about nothing and everything. We stopped looking in stores, cafes, over-caffeinated and always on the verge of needing a washroom. It was a sunny day and each time we crossed into the shade we felt like we wandered into winter, jackets went on, we shivered and pulled our coats up high, yet the minute we walked into the sun we would begin to sweat from the heat.

I was amazed that even though so much in the world has changed some things stay the same, our basic human experiences are still a constant. Climate change is generally accepted, it's a fact (stop denying it people) but the experience of weather is still the same on a day to day basis. I have the same basic experience as my Grandfather, and as his Grandfather before him, despite the fact that our landscape has drastically changed my basic human experience is still the same. I have to marvel at that, to know that what Dickens described still rings as true to me today as it did to those in his day and likely to those many years before him. Spring is spring and I do hope that we don't fuck it up for those many years after us, for the grandchildren of my nieces and nephews as I would love for them to be walking down the street one day catching up with a friend they have not seen in a long time and crossing in a desperate attempt to warm themselves on the sunny side of the road just as I had so many years before.

I am available this week and next and can host in downtown Toronto or near the airport with advance notice and appropriate verification or would visit you at your hotel throughout the GTA. I am also available for both domestic and international private travel, for more information please visit my website or send me an email.

I look forward to meeting you!

kyragraves.canada@gmail.com
www.ABenePlacito.com​