2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Hope

Author: 
Cecelia Regan
Friday, May 30, 2025

It has been a long winter: long nights, grey, cold, rainy, sad, isolating, endless.

But spring always returns. We are reminded that we come alive again by new growth, color, singing birds, longer days, warm sun, neighbors emerging, and happy hearts.

This is the cycle of life. Our dark days are enlightened by the hope of a new day.
When winter seems endless, spring impels us forward to joy.

Hope will never disappoint.