Spring – Hope

Spring Always Follows Winter – after dormancy, it is the season best calculated to provide the ideal conditions for growth. Spring is beginning, freshness, newness. It starts small – barely recognizable – the tiniest frond of green among the blackness, calling forth an answering shiver from somewhere deep inside us. We are told that every cell in our body replaces itself in seven years, so springtime is a constant within us.

Hope Is a Sacred Obligation – Life persists in spite of entropy, In spite of darkness, in spite of destruction. Life is a perpetual motion machine fueled by hope, and warriors are the priests of life.

Warriors Nurture Hope and Pass It On – Hope is the condition of believing betterment is possible. It is mandated by the fact that all growing things need nurturing if they are to flourish. Warriors are the mothers of the universe.

Models – “Hope is being able to see there is light in spite of the darkness” – Desmond Tutu

“What I try to cultivate is not blind optimism but radical hope” – Junot Diaz

“Everything that is done in this world is done by hope” – Martin Luther

“Only in darkness can you see the stars” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Haiku: Altruism

Crows call “Come Eat!”
Across trees in hope
Someday strangers
Feed baby
Crows.