As each month approaches, we begin to think about those things that mark those months, be they holidays, birthdays, special planned events, a planned vacation, the first day of school, the last day of school and so many other things that get us excited about the upcoming month on our calendar.

Other things that can be said about the current month of March has already been said, and some of those thoughts have been said by some pretty noteworthy people. Today’s VFTB narrative shares with you some of the thoughts about the month of March:

“Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.”

≤ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“March brings breezes loud and shrill, stirs the dancing daffodil.”

≤ Sara Coleridge

“In March winter is holding back, and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too.”

≤ Jean Hersey

“I love March as it gives me hope that new beginnings are always beautiful.”

≤ Anamika Mishra

“A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, a wind comes off a frozen peak, and you’re two months back in the middle of March.”

≤ Robert Frost

“March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.”

≤ English Proverb

“Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.”

≤ Lewis Grizzard

“March is the month of expectation, the things we do not know, the persons of prognostication are coming now. We try to sham becoming firmness, but pompous joy betrays us, as his first betrothal betrays a boy.”

≤ Emily Dickinson

“In March, soft the rains storms continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground.”

≤ John Steinbeck

“Daffodils, that come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty.”

— William Shakespeare

“That’s the trouble with March–the warmth never lasts. There’s that narrow stretch which parades as spring, just enough for you to thaw if you’re sitting in the sun, but then it’s gone.”

≤ V. E. Schwab

“Only those with tenacity can march forward in March.”

≤ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Flowers and colours everywhere, I am so glad that March is here.”

≤ Anamika Mishra

“Despite March’s windy reputation, winter isn’t really blown away; it is washed away. It flows down all the hills, goes swirling down the valleys and spills out to sea. Like so many of this earth’s elements, winter itself is soluble in water…”

≤ The New York Times

“March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again.”

≤ Tracy Chevalier

“By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run, and the world would wake into itself again.”

≤ Neil Gaiman

“March comes in with an adder’s head, and goes out with a peacock’s tail.”

≤ Richard Lawson Gales

“The stormy March has come at last, with winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast, that through the snowy valley flies.”

≤ William C. Bryant

“One Christmas, my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.”

≤ Mo Rocca

“This is the perfume of March: rain, loam, feathers, mint.”

≤ Lisa Kleypas

“After a certain age, time just drizzles down upon your head like rain in the month of March.”

–unknown

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”

— unknown

“March 4th, the only day that is also a sentence.”

–unknown

These are some thoughts about the Month of March. We, in our house. also recognize March as we celebrate the Birthdays of our youngest daughter, Chris, it is the month in which Sally and I met (’79) and got married (’80), and it marks the Wedding Anniversary of my Brother Tom (R.I.P Dr. Bro) and his Wife, Lisa. We also cling to the memories of those loved ones who passed in March, my mom, and brother, the passing of Sally’s sister, Linda (just this past Monday), and we celebrate the Birthday of our son’s Godmother (Happy Birthday, Chris).

On a different note, It marks the almost first full month of Spring Training Baseball, and the start of the regular season of baseball, it honors St. Patrick, and it even warns us to beware on March 15th.

So, March is a month that gives us reasons to celebrate, to remember happy and sad, and also feel, and be hopeful, as March marks the beginning of Spring (on the calendar, anyway, not always outside our windows.) Here’s wishing all of us, under whatever circumstances we find ourselves, as good a March as is possible.