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Spring, finally! Happy Passover! (Seder tonight with my husband’s family) Happy Equinox! The golfers are returning outside our windows. We took a Spring Break bike ride in the 70-degree weather. The kids will go in person to school on April 5th. Jory and I got texts from the NM Health Department on Monday that we are greenlit for the first Moderna shot. On Tuesday, coincidentally, my sister in Arizona and cousin in Ohio got their first shots too (what are the odds??). Then smack dab in the middle of Spring Break and all this renewal, we had a 24-hour freak blizzard. Temps dropped down to 30, winds gusted up to 60 mph. Much like hearing of the recent shootings in GA and CO, and the voter restrictions in Georgia. A chill. All progress felt frozen. This I think, is how emerging from the COVID bubble will be. Rather than a straight line, life will give us two steps forward, one step back. The beauty here is that it gives us a continual chance to redefine and recreate a newness for our lives, not just return to how things used to be. While on Spring Break, Ali qualified for her first prize in the Newberry Challenge by writing up five of the Newberry books she’s read. One was EB White's Charlotte’s Web (which still makes me cry - even at 52). What Charlotte tells Wilbur towards the end of the book is perfect for us, who are slowly and gradually reawakening from our COVID hibernation: Winter will pass, the days will lengthen, the ice will melt in the pasture pond. The song sparrow will return and sing, the frogs will awake, the warm wind will blow again. All these sights and sounds and smells will be yours to enjoy Wilbur – this lovely world, these precious days… (p. 164) These precious days indeed.
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Lauri
3/29/2021 06:57:01 am
I used to cry every year when I read this book aloud to my first graders. On a side note, has she read "The Cricket in Times Square"? That was always another favorite read-aloud....
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Steph
3/29/2021 02:30:41 pm
Thanks for our next book rec Lalee!! We are doing a Newberry Book Club and it qualifies!! (And I've never read this one, so can't wait!) xoxo
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