Winter’s done, and April’s in the skies, Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!

The struggle has always been inner, and is played out in outer terrains. Awareness of our situation must come before inner changes, which in turn come before changes in society. Nothing happens in the “real” world unless it first happens in the images in our heads.

Chapter 1, Is everyone really equal? O. Sensoy and R. DiAngelo. Gloria Anzaldua, p. 310, 2009.

Cause me to hear the loving-kindness in the morning; for thee do I trust: cause me to know the way where in I should walk; for I lift up my soul to thee.

March brings breezes loud and shrill, stirs the dancing daffodil.

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due. When it is in the power of your hand to do so.

All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that things old men and old women now have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.

p. 412, Thirteen Moons, Charles Frazier

About about all one can do in defense is present them a moving target.

p. 402, Thirteen Moons, Charles Frazier.

For lo, the winter is past… the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of the birds has come.

Sing like the birds, but make use of words.

Dennis Martin, Smithville, TN, Beside the Still Waters, vol 30, issue 2

I think of a saying that I learned as a boy:

”Be careful of the words you speak and keep them soft and sweet: you’ll never know from day to day, which ones you’ll have to eat.”

Fred Beachy, Crofton, KY, Beside the Still Waters, Vol. 30, Issue 2.

Ephesians 2:8-9

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which god hath before ordained that we should walk in them.