dear april
dearest april,
please take a moment to sit back, rest and reflect. you have such a way about you filled with drama and soft moments of quiet and this year you really shone like only you can shine. you brought record highs of heat and allowed us to revel in the sunshine but you couldn’t let the sun take centre stage as winter’s blizzard snow was becoming quite jealous wasn’t she? so you allowed her to fly across this province with bitter winds and dancing snowflakes. you gave me moments of cozy warmth and wool socks, sweaters and flannel movie watching. you gave me moments of dancing in the outside planning my garden and walking on the promise of green.
today i awoke to say good-bye to you and saw that you were not quite finished with your drama as rain drips down to reveal fields of green grass and an explosion of green buds. you leave behind a freshness that feels exactly right, exactly like a good-bye should be. you allowed me to grieve for my losses. you allowed me to rejoice in all the exciting new beginnings that are happening in my life. you showed me that if i believe in my dreams that they will happen because they are happening.
thank you april for honoring all the contradictions in me. for showing me that it is okay to feel two very different ways and to know that one day the sun can burn down and the next the snow can tumble around me; one day i can feel absolute joy and the next i can cry in pain. we hold it all in ourselves don’t we and that is a wonderful way to live i think.
see you next year,
lots of love
dar
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