I confessed to you recently that I was a little discombobulated because my office moved. More accurately, I myself moved between two stationary offices. Things are not getting any better in the discombobulation department.  Today I went for a run at lunch with some co-workers (one great perk of my job is that we have a locker room on site so I get to have recess).  I was outside for about forty-five minutes.  For about a half-hour we trudged through a howling wind and blinding snow even though it is April 7th.  For the last fifteen minutes the wind seemed to disappear, the sun came out, and we could hear birds chirping.  Maybe the oddest weather swing I’ve witnessed.  Couple that with the fact that the North Koreans just test fired a long-range missile and I’m just disconcerted in general.

Disconcerting before I even mention that last Sunday on the way to church my family witnessed a squirrel chasing a rabbit across somebody’s front yard.  I have never seen a squirrel chase anything but another squirrel, but this one definitely had something against this particular rabbit.  I’m guessing that with Groundhog Day recently behind us and the Easter Bunny fast approaching, this squirrel finally snapped in a fit of jealous anger.  I can’t blame him for being bitter.  He got left out of the holiday rodent lineup.

(Wikipedia tells me that a rabbit is technically not a rodent, but I’m guessing such a distinction would be lost on reasonable squirrels, to say nothing of angry ones).

I want to close today with a product suggestion for the General Mills Company, the maker of Lucky Charms cereal.  Last year around Easter I was trying to round up a snack for our daughter Shelby.  As a joke, I offered to make her a bowl of croutons mixed with leftover marshmallow Peeps chicks.  Since then we have occasionally joked about having a bowl of croutons and Peeps.  A couple weeks ago I was getting out a box of Lucky Charms and a light bulb went off.  After I replaced the light bulb I had a really good idea.

General Mills should partner with the Peeps people and have an Easter themed Lucky Charms cereal every year.  Instead of the normal marshmallow bits they could have little Easter chicks, bunnies, eggs, lilies, etc.  (Of course they could also include little marshmallow crosses but no responsible modern company would mar the commercial veneer of Easter with a little meaning).

I hesitated sharing this idea in case General Mills runs with it and I thus contribute to the further commercialization of Easter.  Then I figured that, hey, at least it would help raise awareness of Easter and maybe some folks would at least ponder its meaning while enjoying a delightful bowl of limited edition Lucky Charms.  Plus also the Arbor Day Squirrel told me this was a great idea and I don’t want to make him mad.