what the world needs,
ask yourself what
makes you come alive,
and then go do it.
Because what the
world needs is people
who have come alive.
--Howard Thurman
"Maybe if we reinvent whatever our lives give us we find poems." --Naomi Shihab Nye
What must it feel like after months of existing as bare brown sticks, all reasonable hope of blossoming lost, to suddenly, one warm April ...