Green Spring Renews Life's Promise
For me, two of the loveliest words in the English language are "Life persists". I came across them years ago as a college freshman, sitting in the library on a beautiful spring day, bored, working on a history paper, I don't recall I was researching into. Out of nowhere, those two words came (dance) off the page in a quote by Gandhi, "In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists."
After those words (read) again a dozen times, suddenly I was no longer bored. Outside in the sunshine, I kicked off my shoes and danced barefoot across a spring-green lawn.
I love spring. And this year, I was especially hungry to see it. Flying home last weekend to Las Vegas, after 10 days in California, I looked down on hills that were so green that I almost taste them. When I approached Vegas, the green turned a dull desert brown. We landed after sunset, and the only green to be seen was neon (霓虹灯).
But the next morning, to my surprise, I (awake) to find signs of spring all over my yard. my absence, all sorts of things had leafed and bloomed. Three days later, I drove to Arizona to visit a friend and get yet another taste of spring seeing the Giants play the A's in spring training. The drive across the desert was completely great, a variety of wildflowers and blooming cactuses.
Sometimes we need the chance (remind) that we're still alive. After my husband died, a friend sent me a card which read: "Just you think you will never smile again, life comes back."
Life persists, and so do in the green of spring and the dead of winter, in the birth of a child and the passing of a loved one; in the words we leave behind and the hearts of those will remember us. Spring reminds us that we're alive forever.
