April Showers (WC)

  

(April 30, 2023, Sunday of the Holy Myrrhbearing Women, feast day of (above) Our Lady of Perpetual Help/Mother of God of the Passion Icon, of Our Lady of Africa, of Saint Onenn of Brittiany, Saint Marie of the Incarnation Guyart,  Saint Hildegard the Empress (Supporter of Saint Saint Lioba), Saint Sophia of Fermo, Blessed William Southerne, Blessed Dede Plani. On Jewish calendar, Count "Twenty-Five Days to the Omer" Tonight. Tonight also ushers in tomorrow's May Day celebration. Image from here.)

April Showers

…being my preference.

Joseph’s being May flowers.

April, from Latin aperire "to open",

mid-12c. replaces Old English Eastermonað–-

fertility goddess, or May flowers-to-be,

so between you and me,

spot an opportunity

for truce.

*From prompt: Freewrite as inspired by etymology of “April” ; From Lisa Freedman’s BreathReadWrite, April 30, 2023.