GRATEFULNESS LOOKING BACK, JOY AND GRAVITAS LOOKING FORWARD: A SEASONAL REFLECTION As Canada's Shangri-La, Victoria doesn't begin to experience winter like the much of the rest of the continent. The season of dormancy and hibernation is more like an afternoon siesta here, what with snowdrops and crocuses "springing" up in January and February promising much greater abundance to come. Now that the time of May blossoms has arrived, this is my brief paean to the sustaining promise of those early season flowers. How quickly the world turns and time flies, transition following transition. Though life sometimes seems to stall caught in doldrums, it's also true that we can find ourselves in a new season in a veritable blink of the eye. While these are natural cycles, there's also the "X" factor of what we bring to them. Both are processes of emergence.
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GRATEFULNESS LOOKING BACK, JOY AND GRAVITAS LOOKING FORWARD: A SEASONAL REFLECTION
As Canada's Shangri-La, Victoria doesn't begin to experience winter like the much of the rest of the continent. The season of dormancy and hibernation is more like an afternoon siesta here, what with snowdrops and crocuses "springing" up in January and February promising much greater abundance to come. Now that the time of May blossoms has arrived, this is my brief paean to the sustaining promise of those early season flowers. How quickly the world turns and time flies, transition following transition. Though life sometimes seems to stall caught in doldrums, it's also true that we can find ourselves in a new season in a veritable blink of the eye. While these are natural cycles, there's also the "X" factor of what we bring to them. Both are processes of emergence.