Strange parallels: a lovely excerpt from Jane Eyre

Here's Jane in a strangely similar situation to where we find ourselves these days: her boarding school is afflicted with Typhus and Consumption, both deadly diseases, and everything is changed. Sick students are quarantined, and healthy ones are told to stay away, and isolate themselves. Normal routine is abandoned and things seem turned upside down.

But Jane takes this opportunity to roam the woods and find peace and loveliness there. She enjoys this freedom from the confines of her otherwise strict school schedule and describes this time to herself in a way that brings comfort to the reader:

"April advanced to May: a bright, serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its duration. And now vegetation matured with vigour; Lowood (the name of her boarding school) shook loose its tresses; it became all green, all flowery; its great elm, ash, and oak skeletons were restored to majestic life; woodland plants sprang up profusely in its recesses; unnumbered varieties of moss filled its hollows, and it made a strange ground-sunshine out of the wealth of its wild primrose plants: I have seen their pale gold gleam in over-shadowed spots like scatterings of the sweetest luster. All this I enjoyed often and fully, free, unwatched..."

This passage brought me peace and I hope it does to you too.
Here are some pictures of flowers that are coming up all around our house:

Peace