Optimism from Lawrence

ON APRIL FOOLS’ DAY, they announced his death. After battling lung, heart and kidney problems for a month, Europe’s longest reigning monarch finally passed on yesterday. His long reign was second only to Thailand’s Guiding Light.

After two (or three?) death watches, take an antidote to keep sadness at bay.

Mine’s from D.H. Lawrence who was prone to alternating between blind optimism and bitter despair, when he turned towards nature as a source of hope and salvation:

“For man, as for flower and beast and bird,
The supreme triumph is to be most vividly,
Most perfectly ALIVE”