English translate: have a happy March

1. Have a happy March!

2. La primavera presto scioglierà i cristalli di ghiaccio formatisi sui rami degli alberi Frost on shrubs and trees will soon disappear

3. giving way to dormant tender buds anxious to grow.

4. Snow, so fascinating to see, will melt away and the milder climate of the new season will finally arrive

5. and the migratory birds will return back .

6. The first rays of the new spring sun influence on the climate.

7. Nature constantly renews itself, nothing in Nature’s green carpet remains the same, but few of us realize it.

8. Passing through the city, slaves to our busy schedule, we look without seeing and fail to perceive the world around us.

9. We may have valid reasons to avoid stopping, but as time passes by we cease to pay attention to the green fields flanking the freeways and to the life growing in them.

10. Our frantic way of life has deprived us from the pleasure of listening in delight to a brooklet’s soft murmur,

11. or of drinking at leisure the fresh water of a spring.

12. Perhaps we are not attracted any longer by that moment of respite that may allow us to get our breath back,

13. in the same way that we have lost the pleasure to enjoy doing nothing for a while, maybe to avoid thinking about our doubts and certitudes.

14. Nevertheless, a pause is always useful to relax mind and body.

15. Sometimes there is just a short distance between the street we’ve taken and the fields, or the trees of a park we pass swiftly by.

16. However, the gap between both styles of life is a very wide one, a veritable abyss.

17. We wish you to make a healthy stroll in green surroundings, to experience the sense of calm and serenity.

18. Have a happy March! Text & Graphic Work: GiEffebis@alice.it English: mussonor@gmail.com