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Gina Malone, Editor<\/p><\/div>\n

Spring Is Here!<\/em> John Sperry\u2019s painting on our cover proclaims it, and I\u2019m a believer. What better messengers of the beauty of sun-warm, blue-sky, flower-fragrant spring days than birds, specifically Robins? Since we began hanging nest boxes, planting flowers and putting out bird food in an ever-growing collection of feeders at home, we\u2019ve been inundated by flights of joy. If, like me, you never tire of watching and learning about our avian friends, there\u2019s more good information to be found in this issue: an article on bird migration in our area and a visit with the White-throated Sparrow.<\/p>\n

And what would a spring issue be without flowers? Our bouquet this month includes Lenten roses and trilliums. In April, when, truly, as Ralph Waldo Emerson says, \u201cthe earth laughs in flowers,\u201d (and the world celebrates Earth Day), The Laurel<\/em> will debut its Spring Home & Garden issue.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it\u2019s the birdsong, all of that flower laughter or our own souls wanting to burst out singing after being a bit caged up by winter\u2019s cold, but springtime almost begs for music. Put your Irish on\u2014we all have a little, come March\u2014and listen to Celtic tunes at Story Parlor with Jamie Laval, or celebrate the legendary Leslie Riddle at Burnsville\u2019s RiddleFest.<\/p>\n

This is our Education 2025 issue, and we hope it opens doors to learning for you, whether you decide to take a class in upholstery, bread baking or playing blues harmonica. Let\u2019s not forget the budding young artists\u2014the Art League of Henderson County hasn\u2019t! And read about the amazing resource and solace hub that ArtSpace Charter School became after Helene\u2014for its students and the community at large.<\/p>\n

Spring is such a reminder of hope. We need only look to the natural world to know that we can make our human world better, too. Spring is a reminder, also, of joy\u2014not so much the pleasure that unexpectedly comes our way, but the kind we create. \u201cI have really been thinking that joy is the moments \u2014 for me, the moments when my alienation from people \u2014 but not just people, from the whole thing \u2014 it goes away, and it shrinks. If it was a visual thing, like, everything becomes luminous.\u201d Well said, Ross Gay.<\/p>\n

Gina Malone can be reached at gina@thelaurelofasheville.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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