Spring… she’s round the corner from here!
Lean out, a little further out the window…
Ah! There she is! taking her sweet time too the cheeky little bugger. Making her gradual descent to greet us with that perfectly pitched temperature.
Corralling the flowers and busying the bees,
Coaxing the winter fairies to bed and readying the eager spring fairies for work. Freshly cut grass, trees adorned in that lovely leafy shade of evergreen.
Peonies ugh! and hydrangeas yay! will take centre stage.
Fluttering butterflies, and florals for spring.
Spring is a time to begin again; I love that phrase, to begin again, because it signifies a return to self, a reset to centre, to the place where we last forgot ourselves, to remind ourselves of the times when we laughed so much our sides hurt, when the weather danced sweetly on our skin, when we lived fast and ran free, sprang forward with utter reckless abandon. Slowness sometimes can be overrated; the kind that feels trend-led and three inches deep, I need a slowness that can still make room for speed, slowness that does not dampen our wild side when it comes out to play. An abundance in energy to see everything, do everything, eat anything, drink something potent, stay up until the sun comes up because we want to hold on to the wildness of the night. Or simply sit in the quiet on a rainy spring day, curled up with a good book and caressed by the sound of the rain against the window pane.
This spring let us make way for a little wildness; be a little reckless and uninhibited; as if you were riding the back of Harley, hands stretched out to your sides and the breeze high fives you on the ride; the world passing by in a soft blur. Let us return to the place where we forgot ourselves, dust us up and make good on that promise to begin again. Make a little place for us to get to know ourselves again, make a little space to tend to the softness of who we once were when we find her amid the chaos of the world.
Let’s play away the lovely days of Spring a little wilder, a little softer, a little lovelier. And add a dash of fast in there.