April is a funky month for me.
It’s not the weather. The weather in Texas is actually pretty perfect in April, especially this year. It’s been cooler than usual, which for me is a glorious thing.
It’s partially the time of the school year. April is a rushed month, trying to pick up momentum again after they’ve had a taste of Spring Break so that we can finish the semester. That’s challenging, especially when we’ve missed as many days for weather or sickness or some other reason as we have this semester.
It’s mostly that I associate spring with loss. Many significant people in my life – my friend G from the Bangles post, MeMaws and Granddaddies, uncles and aunts – have died during the spring. The Boston Marathon tragedy last year fit in a little too well.
But there has also been comfort and hope, and that’s been beautiful.
Yesterday, I looked down at one of Granddaddy’s old cardigans that I was wearing, and I noticed that the tag still bore his name.
The Denton Community Market, which is the most beautiful thing Denton does, opened again.
And speaking of Boston, these pictures of survivors are my favorite thing on the Internet this month.
Edited to add – And oh gosh, this love letter to the Boston Marathon by Esther Emery.
So April is still beautiful, even through the melancholy.
I’m linking up with Amy Young’s Trusting Tuesdays, as we keep account of our OneWord365. Join us?
M. Suzanne Terry 
Loss and presence – your grandfather’s death and his named cardigan still warming you as I bet his love did in life. In spring I always sense the truth of renewal as life bursts forth from seemingly dead plants, as old branches split and reveal delicate blossom or leaf buds. And death too, now we have experienced Easter, cannot bury love. Love bursts forth in unexpected places, never fully lost.
Beautiful, Juliet.
April is strange for me, too. I am actually loving having Easter in April this year for the very reason you are writing about: beauty defying the darkness.
“Beauty defying the darkness” – I love that, Carey.
Thanks for the picture of the cardigan tag. Made me want to look for more beauty in the ordinary. I love this month, by month journey we are on. 🙂
Me, too. I’m so grateful to you for hosting, Amy. It helps keep me on track. 🙂