CADC Excellence Award Winner, 2022
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Life.
Do you hear it?
In rumbling thunder and soaring laughter.
In the thrumming of music and the patter of rain.
In the soft hush before dawn and the lofty chimes at dusk.
Do you see it?
In the pigments of seasons and the splashes on canvas.
In radiant smiles and rolling tears and wagging tails and sturdy roots.
In open skies and crowded kitchen tables.
Do you smell it?
In the earthy petrichor and the sweetness of fruit.
In fresh coffee beans and dog-eared book pages.
In the faraway spices of a dish and the closeness of a hug.
Do you feel it?
The lightness…
and the fullness…
the ebbs and flows…
of infinite possibilities…
fluttering in your heart.
Life gives us the instincts to survive.
But only through living…
growing…
loving…
and giving…
do we learn to thrive.