Spring Time Sweetness...

Hello there~ How are you? 

I write to you today feeling full of joy and spaciousness.  

SPRING TIME

 The sun is warm today, and I write this after a quiet practice by the pond. I lay on my coat in a T-shirt, looking up at the sky. It felt like a precious gift in what has been a diverse and full week.

It’s my first English spring in eight years. I’d forgotten how sudden it can be. One minute everything feels half asleep, and the next moment it all begins to wake.

I’d got used to winter in a way — it almost felt like that was simply how things were now. A part of me had stopped questioning whether winter might go on forever.

And then the daffodils came — everywhere — confidently waving their yellow heads in the breeze. Hyacinths under the trees outside my window. Birds singing. Bees already back on shift, buzzing around the community hives.

Despite the usual swirl of life — full family, full moon, my own moon, and the general background intensity of the world — this spring has brought with it an unexpected amount of joy.

I almost feel like I should rein it in as I write. Somehow it feels easier to share the challenges and the lessons than the joy itself. It feels more relatable, more real somehow, to be down. As if allowing myself to fully feel happiness might betray those who are suffering.

And yet life has many seasons, and today the season is one that says yes.

Yes to life. Yes — keep caring. Yes — kindness matters ( There is so much power in this.)

Yes to being thankful.

And yes ~ to giving myself permission to truly enjoy all this.

When I reflect on this I realise permission hasn’t always come easily.

The daffodils mirror this for me — bold enough to raise their happy faces out into the world, all the while feeding the bees. Perhaps sometimes it really is that simple.

I don’t want this to come off as preaching — God forbid. We all have enough pressure, coercion, and unsolicited advice most days to last us a lifetime. What I share isn’t meant as a prescription, but simply how things are for me today. I'm well aware that another day things will surely feel different.

But I am curious, since the feeling has been so strong for me - what season are you in right now?

Is there a little spring stirring where you are? Or are you still somewhere inside winter?

~All is welcome & as ever I love to hear your thoughts.  

REFLECTIVE PAUSE

Invitation: set a timer for a 3 mins (or more) and write or ponder:

1. What season best reflects your inner landscape at the moment?

2. Where are the small “daffodil moments” appearing in your days?(The moments that might easily be overlooked — a pause, a breath of fresh air, a brief sense of ease.)

3. What might a small act of care for yourself look like this week