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Things to Do in April: Be reborn. Follow your heart instead of your head. Go barefoot before it’s time. Forget your umbrella and walk in the rain like you did as a kid. Buy flowers instead of bread. Be a lunchbox artist… hardboil eggs and dye them all deep red.
Hatch A New Look or a new idea. Crush on someone unattainable. Wake up to Coltrane to sweet talk your soul. Make Green your mantra. Grow lettuce, boil shrimp. Give up winter blues and
Pack the Black Away for a while. Adopt a dog and name it Scrappy. Consider the lilies of the valley and wear Diorissimo. Get a tattoo that says “Kiss the sky.” Buy that bikini, no matter what your stretchmarks say. Fresh basil beckons…bring it home. Marry it to mozzarella… they’re made for each other. Bare your skin and shea butter it up. Come out of your shell and be tender. Cover copy by Nikki Hardin, art by Ali Douglass
“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.” Ernest Hemingway