SPRING CUSTOMS AROUND THE GLOBE

What makes spring special in many places of our world?    Why do people look forward to the spring?   The whole world (or, at least, the entire Northern Hemisphere) is celebrating the return of spring.   Spring time is the ideal time for festivals: just as the winter goes away and nature comes back to life.  Spring is the time for rebirth and renewal.   In early spring, frost may still rime the windows in the morning, but we can feel the promise of a new season in each passing day. Almost imperceptibly, the sun warms, the day lengthens, and the air seems pure and thin as it takes on the scent of freshly turned soil, emerging green and soft rains. Spring is a time of awakening, of healing and renewal, of the dawning and planting of new ideas. The world seems young and virgin again.     Here are…