Hope, Freshness and New Birth

April has always seemed a poetic month to me. We are fully into spring and Mother Nature starts putting on a show of colour and rebirth. Earth Day reminds us to celebrate and protect this amazing world we live in. And holidays like Passover and Easter allow us to enjoy family and friends around us, while freshness and lightness abound.

I remember reading this April poem by Henry Gardiner Adams in school, and it still gives me a sense of joy as I reread it today.

A bursting into greenness.
A waking as from sleep.
A twitter and a warble
That make the pulses leap.
A watching, as in childhood,
For the flowers that, one by one,
Open their golden petals
To woo the fitful sun.
A gust, a flash, a gurgle,
A wish to shout and sing.
As, filled with hope and gladness,
We hail the vernal Spring. 

Let’s burst into all the hope, gladness, freshness and new birth that our April issue offers:

• Find a recipe for bright and beautiful lemon bars on page 5 – they’d be a welcome addition to your Easter table!
• It’s not just flowers that are newly emerging this month – it’s baby teeth too! Learn how to care for them on page __.
• The spring real estate market is typically the busiest time of the year. Find out how to buy, sell and groooooow into your next home on page __.
• “When kids watch us repair, forgive and recommit, they don’t just see a marriage. They see what partnership looks like in every season.” – Read our page __ article to freshen up your family’s ideas on love.

We wish you the warmest of Aprils (in your heart and in the weather outside!). May you slow down to notice the little miracles that pop up all around you, and enjoy time with family, friends and Mother Nature!

 

Sabina Manji, a lifelong Londoner, is an irrepressible entrepreneur, mother of a wonderful son, and also a committed volunteer.