Have you been reading my journals and mind? These thoughts you’ve shared are so similar to what’s been percolating in my mind recently. Thank you for the wonderful mention too! I am honored and grateful ♥️
😄 It must truly be in the air, Megan! I got an email from a menstrual cycle educator this morning (Red School) and they touched on something very similar. Lindsey Melden wrote a beautiful essay about this too. It’s amazing so many disparate people are picking up similar things.
People are craving a reconnection to our roots as cyclical beings. It’s making me so happy to see it, and I hope the movement continues! I’ll have to check those out, thanks!
Was just talking about the discomfort that comes with the act of emerging this week. Growth is glorified but it's also painful. The splitting open of a branch. The initial transformation from one state of being to another. It can also be both slow and then fast, at times erratic -- like a flower that spends a lot of time underground and then the entire plant shoots through the earth and quickly blooms. Thank you for this essay. It resonated!
You’ve really captured it there, Hannah. Thank you so much for reading and adding your thoughts. With you bringing attention to the actions of the plant, I finding myself wondering what all that growth would feel like from a plant’s perspective. It sounds like a lot, yet we think nothing of plants blooming.
I resonate with this a lot. Especially how I’m feeling very tender - I think “betwixt & between” says it nicely. I was going to write a bit about this uneasy/tender part of spring this week but now I have two kids home with a stomach bug. 😩 I also love the idea of keeping a bloom journal, and that meme is priceless 😂
Have you been reading my journals and mind? These thoughts you’ve shared are so similar to what’s been percolating in my mind recently. Thank you for the wonderful mention too! I am honored and grateful ♥️
😄 It must truly be in the air, Megan! I got an email from a menstrual cycle educator this morning (Red School) and they touched on something very similar. Lindsey Melden wrote a beautiful essay about this too. It’s amazing so many disparate people are picking up similar things.
People are craving a reconnection to our roots as cyclical beings. It’s making me so happy to see it, and I hope the movement continues! I’ll have to check those out, thanks!
Was just talking about the discomfort that comes with the act of emerging this week. Growth is glorified but it's also painful. The splitting open of a branch. The initial transformation from one state of being to another. It can also be both slow and then fast, at times erratic -- like a flower that spends a lot of time underground and then the entire plant shoots through the earth and quickly blooms. Thank you for this essay. It resonated!
You’ve really captured it there, Hannah. Thank you so much for reading and adding your thoughts. With you bringing attention to the actions of the plant, I finding myself wondering what all that growth would feel like from a plant’s perspective. It sounds like a lot, yet we think nothing of plants blooming.
Yes! This poem says it all. https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-wild-iris/
Wow! It truly does!
Ooh yes, perfect images.
I resonate with this a lot. Especially how I’m feeling very tender - I think “betwixt & between” says it nicely. I was going to write a bit about this uneasy/tender part of spring this week but now I have two kids home with a stomach bug. 😩 I also love the idea of keeping a bloom journal, and that meme is priceless 😂
I would love to read your perspective on the tender parts of spring. I hope your kiddos recover swiftly and no one else in the house is taken down!