May
Pluralism

To see the other side, to defend another people, not despite your tradition but because of it, is the heart of pluralism.  Eboo Patel

The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.  Christopher Hitchens

This is pluralism: not a synonym of relativism, but rather an antonym. Pluralism accepts the moral reality of different kinds of truth, but rejects the idea that they can all be placed on a single scale, measured by a single value.
― Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century

June
Renewal

“Renewal requires opening yourself up to new ways of thinking and feeling.” Deborah Day

“There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.”  Rachel Carson

Vines will be planted, corn will spring up, a whole growth of new crops; and people will still fall in love in vintages and harvests yet to come. Life is eternal; it is a perpetual renewal of birth and growth. Emile Zola