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The Music of Spring

Okay, no, it’s not your TYPICAL spring music, but when you’re driving around in shorts & sandals on the warmest (so far) day of the year, and this comes on the radio, your car suddenly and magically turns into a convertible…and you’re cruising.

So you roll down the windows and turn up the volume, and you share the music with whoever wants to listen. And you rock out with the music, because you’re good enough, you’re smart enough, and gosh darn it all, you’re old enough not to care anymore.

And then this comes on, and you think, wait, that’s not R&B, and then your brain just says, hey, whatever, It’s Spring, and you keep the volume right where you’ve got it, and you bop your head side-to-side, and you keep rolling down the road.

I know many of you are still buried in snow drifts. And all I can do is send the music your way, and remind you of the first glimpses of Spring that Mr. Tumnus and the Beavers saw, the tiny signs that the long, cold winter was ending. I wish you all a Happy Spring and blow warm winds your way.

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Becky Levine is a children's book writer, working hard to strengthen her picture-books skills. She is the author of The Writing & Critique Group Survival Guide, a book to help you get started with a critique group, learn to revise from a critique, and strengthen your own critiquing powers. She has also published two nonfiction children's books with Capstone Press. She is currently seeking representation. Becky lives in California's Santa Cruz mountains, where she spends a lot of time sitting on the couch, knitting needles in hand, thinking through the next revision. At her day job, she writes grants for a nonprofit healthcare organization.

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