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The Youth of April

“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.”  — William Shakespeare

Unlocking Flowers

“Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.”  — Bishop Reginald Heber

Laughter

The earth laughs in flowers.”  — Ralph Waldo Emerson

April Flowers

“April brings the primrose sweet, scatters daisies at our feet.”  — Sara Coleridge

What Makes Flowers Beautiful

“Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light, and that makes them beautiful.”  — Jim Carrey

Rewriting Genesis

“Every April, God rewrites the book of Genesis.”  — Unknown

Brevity

We are so brief. A one-day dandelion. A seedpod skittering across the ice. We are a feather falling from the wing of a bird. I don’t know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is… Continue Reading “Brevity”

Wisdom of Wendell Berry

I go among the trees and sit still.All my stirring becomes quietaround me like circles on water.My tasks lie in their placeswhere I left them, asleep like cattle.

Your Soul Is Alive

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

Intrusions of Beauty

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.