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Topic: Spring, Rebirth, and New Beginnings
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MysticMelody
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posted April 12, 2009 02:59 AM
 
 “If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.” ~Gail Sheehy  "The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings." ~Dave Weinbaum IP: Logged |
MysticMelody
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posted April 12, 2009 03:13 AM
For I remember it is Easter morn,
And life and love and peace are all new born. ~Alice Freeman Palmer
Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.
~Floyd W. Tomkins
Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing.
~Albert Laighton
Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there.
~Clarence W. Hall
Ye sleeping buds, break
Open your green cerements, and wake
To fragrant blossoming for His sweet sake.
~Margaret French Patton
'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees
Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here.
~St Augustine 
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26taurus
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posted April 13, 2009 12:06 PM
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria RilkeApril prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. ~Christopher Morley Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment. ~Ellis Peters If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. ~Nadine Stair The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. ~Arthur Rubenstein 
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26taurus
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posted April 13, 2009 12:11 PM
While outside in a sunshower once down south, I saw that I was standing that the end of a rainbow!!! 
Thankfully I was with someone, so i knew i wasnt dreaming.
What a sight to behold. It touched down on the earth right in front of me.  IP: Logged |
26taurus
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posted April 13, 2009 12:14 PM
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26taurus
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posted April 13, 2009 12:23 PM
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
George ElliotYou're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings -- there are no such things. There are only middles.
Robert Frost Reality is the beginning not the end,
Naked Alpha, not the hierophant Omega,
Of dense investiture, with luminous vassals.
Wallace Stevens 
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26taurus
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posted April 13, 2009 12:35 PM
 Sweet blue thrush of spring
Sing turalee turaloo
Ah, no finer thing!
http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/blog/labels/spring%20birds.html
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ghanima81
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posted April 13, 2009 02:41 PM
One of the greatest sounds after a long winter is the birds singing in the morning... Even if they wake me up, I still smile... How many double rainbows did you see down in FL, T? I saw them all the time! The atmosphere was so crazy what with thunderstorms/sun every few minutes, so no big surprise! IP: Logged |
katatonic
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posted April 13, 2009 03:26 PM
26t, thank you for sharing bout the rainbow! i always thought it was impossible, that the ends always recede as you approach them...i would love to know what it feels like to stand at one end...are you irish?? IP: Logged |
26taurus
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posted April 13, 2009 05:05 PM
Yes, it's nice to be able to open up the windows and hear the bird songs again.Like you, I saw a TON of rainbows in FL. The skyscapes in general were really phenomenal. Don't you miss the little geckos running around everywhere? 
Yes, that's another part I'll miss; the daily thunderstorms. They'd come rolling through and quickly pass and it was as if nothing happened - sun beaming bright & paradise again! Well, in certain areas. 
One of the best things about living down there: being able to wear sandals everyday. And not needing to drive far to get to the coast where you could catch a gorgeous sunset just about every evening.  Kat, it was pretty amazing! I was wide-eyed, mouth agape as was the person with me, saying 'omg, look!'. It was a shimmery mirage-like spectacle..."there", but not. Moving and alive. The raindrops coming down looked like diamonds as they caught the sunlight and danced through the transparent colors. The picture above gives you an idea. I'll never forget it! And yeah, I am part Irish! IP: Logged |
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