Looking Ahead

This is the last day of March and the last day that I will be writing regularly here until at least the end of April.  But with that in mind, I wanted to look ahead to what's coming up--things that you can celebrate in April, and also share a few of my own plans.

But first, I hope that your March was a good one--that you learned something new, and that you found some peace in your life.  I hope you were happy and that you felt loved.  And I hope that even if your days were dark, you know that you're not alone.

Starting tomorrow, April Fool's will be here with us once again, but it will also be the first day for me to embark on a poetry challenge from Writer's Digest--A Poem a Day for April.  I'm really looking forward to the challenge, but I'm also dreading getting back into exercising again--which I will also be doing.  On top of that, I finally get to register for school tomorrow--or at least that's my hope.

Still, there are a few others things happening this month:

April 5 -- Easter and the End of Passover
April 7 -- National Beer Day (and also World Health Day)
April 12 -- First Day of Ramadan
April 15 -- Tax Day (though some of us may get a reprieve, still best to get them done!)  and World Art Day
April 19 -- Patriots' Day and also my step-dad's birthday (Also the day of the Boston Marathon)
April 21 -- San Jacinto Day (Texans will know what I'm talking about.)
April 22 -- Earth Day
April 23 -- National Book Day
April 27 -- Full Moon (a Supermoon!)
April 30 -- Arbor Day

If you don't know what some of these days are, I encourage you to look them up and learn a bit more about them.  Learning new things is important to our continued growth and health; so, I hope you'll do some learning in April.

And with that done, I bid you adieu for now.  Be safe this April, and please be kind to one another.