Open the Windows

Here’s a small Saturday invitation: open the windows today.

If the weather where you are will allow it — and May is usually generous about this — just open them. Let the air that’s been outside come inside for a while. The smell of it. The sound of whatever’s happening on your street, the birds doing their morning announcements, the general aliveness of a May Saturday.

There’s something about fresh air moving through a closed space that does quiet work on the mood. It’s not dramatic. It doesn’t fix anything. But it changes the feeling of a room in a way that’s worth almost no effort and costs exactly nothing.

Maple has very strong opinions about open windows, all of them positive. She considers this a five-star amenity. She may be onto something.

Open the windows. Let May in.

Let May in. Sometimes that’s the whole plan and it’s enough.

What’s your favorite small thing about this time of year?