Discovery Map Health & Fitness Writing & Books: 2020 April COVID-19 Discovery Map Easter Map Geek messages of hope Passover Ramadan rebirth and renewal we are one worldview
by maribeth
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April Showers Will Hopefully Bring May Flowers
Late April Sunrise in Telluride
As T. S. Eliot wrote in his poem, “The Waste Land,” ‘APRIL is the cruellest month.’ It has been extremely cruel to many, especially those that have perished due to COVID-19 and all their loved ones as well as those that tirelessly cared for them. It would have been easier not to feel such pain and to have remained in Eliot’s winter state of mind, numb and protected from all, as he wrote in ‘Winter kept us warm, covering.’ But it was not meant to be.
Already from this profound place, most of us have experienced a sense of rebirth and renewal, a recurring motif for the month of April and the most prevalent theme of the messages put forth in this year’s Easter, Passover and now Ramadan messages. I attempted to encapsulate this in a story I wrote for Discovery Map, entitled Map Geek’s Worldview: We Are One. I hope you’ll find a moment to take a look at it and that you’ll find some hope within it. Unlike T.S. Eliot’s renowned poem, April does not have to be the cruelest month despite the fact that it has indeed been very harsh.
Love to all!
