INTERVIEWS
Patricia Raskin Joslyn Wolfe
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I'm Rodelinde.
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Mother's Day has come and gone, and that got me to thinking about maternal love. Some people never really had a mother. Lucky me, I sort of had two. But that's another story. My point today is that a mother's love is the archetype of the many other kinds of love we have experienced or still hope for in our lives.
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. . . when you look at your mother,
you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.
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In its ideal form, motherly love is nurturing, nonjudgmental, unselfish, devoted, fearless, unwavering, understanding, tolerant, affectionate, warm, constant, protective . . . and that's just the top of the list. We could do worse than to emulate these qualities in the way we behave towards our family, our friends, and our beloveds.
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Spring is beautiful, and smells sweet.
Spring is when you shake the curtains,
and pound on the rugs, and take off your long underwear,
and wash in all the corners.
~ Virginia Cary Hudson
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Meanwhile, spring continues to cheer and delight us, bringing color and joy to our lives, a fitting reward for having survived a difficult winter. During no other season does it seem so important that we really pay attention to what's happening around us.
From that first indrawn breath of nature - when we sense rather than see a green haze on the trees, when the merest disturbance of the soil alerts us that spring bulbs are stirring into life, when we feel even ourselves awakening to a new energy - to the days when there's already more than a suggestion of summer in the air, everything happens so quickly that if we blink we might miss the yellow violets blooming or the wrens building their nests.
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If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom. ~ Audra Foveo
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May your eyes be open to each new miracle of spring and your days be filled with gentle sunshine and with the promise of new growth in your garden and in your life.
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