April Showers and May Flowers

I think what we need right now is hope. I'm dedicating this post to the lives lost and affected by the tempestuous April, and to the tenacious will we carry as a community. As a believer in the swing of things, I want nothing more than to promise sunshine and springtime as reward for weathering the storm. I can't promise it, but I can encourage anyone to believe it and work for it. It's what we all deserve. 

It's been a hard week in the world, and I know I don't have to say that, because you, Reader, probably feel it. There's nothing I can say that others before haven't said, or even that I haven't said. So here are words of great others before me on which to pin hope for the passing of the storm. 

"The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief." - William Shakespeare

Blackbird

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche 

Let It Be

"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats." - Voltaire

Say

And finally, and in my mind, most importantly:

"While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful." - H. G. Wells

I'll be posting about my developing thoughts on tragedy, but I'm determined to pace myself when it comes to somber thoughts.