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For me, two of the loveliest words in English are “Life persists”.
I 1 them years ago as a college student, sitting in the library, 2 working on a paper. Out of nowhere,
those words 3 came off the page in a quote: “In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of 4 truth persists, in the
midst of darkness light persists.”
Suddenly I wasn’t unhappy and impatient any more. Then I 5 my granddad. I loved to talk with him. And I was 6to hear what he’d think of it. He had poor hearing, so I had to7 it a few times, but once he8it, he laughed. “All I can say to that is totally 9,”he said on the phone. I told him how glad I was, after a long winter, to finally see spring and 10to find that quote. “Why is that?” he asked. "Well, spring is a sure11 that life persists. And it just makes me 12.”
He laughed again, and then in his 13 voice, he recited for me his 14“spring time” words: “The desert shall rejoice(高兴), and 15 as the rose does…Even with joy and singing.”
Many years later, 16my husband and I drove across a desert with many wildflowers and blooming cactuses(仙人掌), I could 17 hear my granddad laughing: “The desert shall rejoice."
Life persists, and so do we, in the silence of18and the blooming of cactuses; and in the dead of19and the green of spring. Spring 20 us that we’re alive forever.
