This is week and the month of April in general is abundant with religious holy days of many traditions. We are in the midst of Ramadan and Holy Week in our Muslim and Christian communities. This Friday night brings Shabbat as well as Passover in our Jewish community. This week also holds Rama Navami for our Hindu, Vaisakhi for our Sikh and Mahavir Jayanthi for our Jain communities. As the daffodils and cherry blossoms start to bloom, the hecticness of the semester is full speed ahead on campus and events fill our calendars. This can be a moment of franticness, a moment when the to-do list feels overwhelming and unconquerable, a moment when you feel like you’re treading franticly just to stay afloat. It’s in these moments I try to lead into my own rituals and traditions, to remember these ancient traditions have held generations before me. They too had the struggles of spring time, too much to do and too little time to accomplish it. I like to start my Passover seder with some brief silence every year, silence that helps us be present to the moment and to one another before we start our seder. When we’re ready to end this silence at the table we repeat “Hineini” or “here I am”, hineini is used throughout the Torah to signify being present in body, mind and soul. It’s settling into the moment and simply being here and ready. I hope each of us can find a moment of hineini in this coming week. Whether it’s through religious ritual and holiday or not I hope you can find a moment of presence, of here-ness, to help hold you as we tread through this season.