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Dear Friends
Step aside, St. Joseph.
I know it’s your feast day. But it is also the first day of Spring, a
feast day for our senses, leading to a whole season to taste and see
and hear and smell and feel
the new life emerging.
We don’t have to wait for “42 days to bloom” as the
seed package says or need to know “When should I start planting?” as the guide
on the back of the package asks. We can plant seeds every day. We can find
blooms every day.
To mark this day, I want to share what thirteen famous
and not so famous people have said, one for each week of spring:
“Along the river, over the hills, in the
ground, in the sky, spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm, new life,
new beauty, unfolding, unrolling in glorious exuberant extravagance---new birds
in their nests, new winged creatures in the air, and new leaves, new flowers,
spreading, shining, rejoicing, everywhere.”
John Muir
“The ring I hear today is not the alarm clock, not the phone, not the doorbell. The ring I hear is the arrival of spring and my heart sings with joy and hope as I anticipate God’s new surprises!”
John Saville
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
Audrey Hepburn
Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s Party!”
Robin Williams
“Some old-fashioned things like fresh air
and sunshine are hard to beat.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
Leo Tolstoy
“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 Carry
“The beautiful spring came; and when
nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.”
Harriet Ann Jacobs
“The first blooms of spring always make my
heart sing.”
S. Brown
“Spring will come and so will happiness.
Hold on. Life will bet warmer.”
Anita Krizzan
“Despite the forecast, live like it’s
spring”.
Lilly Pulitzer
“My favorite weather is bird chirping
weather.”
Terri Guillemets
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spring forward (day by day) indeed!
John
