Springing Forward
  I read a post this morning from the blog The Bishop in The Grove about the  upcoming vernal equinox, known to pagans as Ostara. Traditionally, with  the coming of spring and thus with Ostara, we look towards new  beginnings, both for mother earth and ourselves. The thought of new  beginnings brings to mind all sorts of fun things like perhaps a new  relationship, new home, new job, a new place to visit. What intrigued me  about Teo Bishop's article was his idea of focusing on the balance  aspect of Ostara. As I ran my errands this morning, I couldn't help but  reflect on where and how we could restore balance into our lives. Our  Nutrition: Many of us are looking to bring our weight or health back  into balance and naturally look towards ways we can be achieve this.  Perhaps instead of focusing on diets that eliminate whole food groups  (vegetarian,paleo, Atkinson, gluten free etc) we should instead look  into how are eating habits are unbalanced and how we can bring things  ...