Hello friends,
This week, I’m unveiling my new column, Monthly Considerations. Once a month, I’ll write a bit of prose poetry inspired by that month (similar to my recent “Hopes for 2024”). This first edition is free for everyone to read, but then this column will be behind the paywall. I’ve been thinking about this offering for some time, and I’m excited to finally bring it to you.
March is a time for unions. Birds begin to return to their breeding grounds. Ice melts, and the earth once again feels the quiet back-and-forth of water lapping its shores. Plant sap flows back into branches with the energetic buzzing of sleeping limbs reawakening. Buds spring forth, eager to see the sky once again. So, too, do the hibernating animals. No one can stay away for long.
I am like all the other things waking from winter’s sleep. Warm temperatures coax me from my hideout with the promise of the sun’s kiss. In the dark, old wounds had time to heal. In the quiet, I became myself again.
Whatever spilled out of you, let go of it. It’s snowmelt returning to the water cycle. Nurture what remains. It will be enough.
Giving and receiving are two sides of the same coin. They are both part of the constant flow of life, coming and going endlessly. All things given are also things received. The only difference is perspective. The sun nourishes the plants. The plants feed the animals. The animals feed each other, and we all end up back in the ground. Come springtime, we bloom again.
The beauty of March is its inherent potential. Life bubbles within, and we have only to hear its voice. The hidden things whisper, knowing only those who listen closely will understand. We take that secret knowledge and release it to the world, sending it out with all the other seeds shooting to the surface. Wisdom exists in a cycle like everything else. We give and take and give again, each of us constantly becoming something new. We don’t need to know the reason we’re here. We only need to find the people who make life worth living.
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Thanks again for reading. I don’t take for granted all of you who open these letters. I’ll see you later this week with the next installment of Thirty-One.