This will probably get removed too, but I'm going to rant because this goes on and on and on so much. IT DIDN'T.

Just look around you. It's spring! Celebrate! Be happy! People have been doing that forever.

Days get longer. Trees leaf, cows calf, sheep lamb, pigs have piglets this time of year. (Dogs and cats probably once had their puppies and kittens now and early fall too, but now they're so confused they don't even know when to shed any more).

Birds lay eggs (go to even the most urban park and I'll bet you can find some building a nest; chickens lay eggs year round, that's why we domesticated them at the first chance). Corn (the non-North American meaning) is peeking out of the ground (food for a year, before peeps could just go to the grocery). Rabbits and bears and wolverines and gophers and bees and wasps and snakes come out of hibernation (or semi-hibernation or just staying inside because it is warmer there). And flowers bloom! Let's party!

BUT just a few weeks or month or so ago it was dark and dank and gloomy - let's not for get that. We can't; that would be bad. So let's remember that just before the party.

Many cultures have marked this cycle. The Jews remember enslavement and then escape and call it Passover (in English). The Christian feasts celebrate a death and a resurrection near the same time of the year because their scriptures tell them that that death happened at that time of the year.

There is probably a reason that the celebration of new life occurs near the spring equinox, but because we enjoy the spring bunnies and all the birds building nest all over the place doesn't mean we're using pagan symbols to commemorate Easter - it just means we like what's happening with the weather lately.