"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."
--Martin Luther.
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- Last Saturday (April 29, 2017), this writer and a media colleague, Regine Algecera of Cable Star-Iloilo, Philippines, witnessed in real sense of the word The Cascades' illustration of how their last hope "live with the lonely leaf that clings to the bough" in their song The Last Leaf, during the legendary annual festival Sakura Matsuri at Brooklyn Botanic Garden in Brooklyn.