Springtime is here in New York. Tulips and daffodils are poking up through last year’s dead leaves in my backyard, and the birds are back! It snowed a bit this morning, but the sun will be out tomorrow. Hooray!

Here’s what we talked about this week on The Sunny Way:

• Monday, Uli wrote about the collective fitness agreement that she started with her friend Brad. Victoria and I joined a few weeks ago and it’s really been motivating to get me off my arse. I don’t want to have to give up $50, but more importantly, I don’t want to have to write to my friends and tell them I failed! Powerful stuff!
• Tuesday, we featured an 11 Questions response by Chris Neidl from I Heart PV (a project of Solar One). Can NYC be the East Coast capital of solar power? Why the heck not?
• Wednesday, Victoria shared her method for testing last year’s seeds to see if they will grow this year.
• And finally on Thursday, I wrapped up our Pronoia book club by diving into what my future self wants to say to my present self. Which was pretty fun.

Today, in honor of the bluebirds and cardinals and sparrows in my backyard, I’d like to share this video that Victoria sent me, about the wild parrots in Brooklyn, and how important it is for urban folk to connect with the wildlife that’s all around. “They’re tough, scrappy, little birds and they’re very, very intelligent and they bring huge amounts of joy to people,” says filmmaker Judy Irving. “They are also a way in to the rest of the natural world and a way in to native species of birds that may not be quite as colorful as parrots ... Once you get into the parrots, then maybe you start looking around a little bit more, and you see the house sparrows and the finches and you see the bluebirds and you see, you start to see the migrating birds, you see the hawks… There’s a tremendous amount of life, natural life in the city that the parrots awaken people to.”

Have a great weekend and join us next week for more stories from our intrepid writers as we explore what it’s like to cultivate and live with a sense of possibility!