As a salutation to rebirth or just a celebration here of the passing of spring to summer, Easter seems like a pretty straightforward holiday. After a grey season blooms flowering jasmine, ligustrum, and oleander. The sun burns hotter, the humidity rises, and big sacks of crawfish become readily affordable again. Yep, time for Easter. Easter's Bunny, on the other hand, is a complete head scratcher of an idea and might be, for some, the most convoluted of children's holiday scenarios. A rabbit sneeks into one's house in the middle of the night to leave baskets filled with eggs? Really?
Of course the idea is sweetened in that the eggs are made from chocolate and accompanied by other sugary treats. And at our house, the Easter Bunny also takes some extra time to grab a big bowl filled with the hard-boiled, real eggs that our children color the day before. The bunny distributes these gems in strategic locations out in the yard. The real eggs get interspersed with little plastic egg shells hand-filled with more candy. Usually these candy eggs have their recipients' names written on them, as a guarantee of equitable sharing.
A rabbit does this? Really? Why is it that even Henry's two older sisters never roll their eyes at any of this? But herein lays the sage lesson of the wise master Easter Bunny. Life is full of important issues and complicated problems, yet the Easter Bunny teaches us that there are times when the most important choice we can make is simply to try not to overthink everything. Live in the moment. Lighten up. Consider with appreciation the world as it should seem to a happy four year old (Henry, for example), in all its simple imaginative wonder.
Have fun, says the wise master Easter Bunny.
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