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A repost of Blossom by blossom by Team Positive

Dear friends,

Blossom by blossom, spring seeps in.

Daffodils show up unannounced, unperturbed, buoyant. Swelling buds and sprouting seedlings – yellow and green and pregnant with promise. Days get warmer. Nature gets fuller.

This is the irrepressible return of life in spring. 

Below 10°C, microbial life on the topsoil grinds to a halt – no longer recycling organic matter or feeding plants with nutrients. In March, as the temperature rises above 10°C, microbial activity stirs, and the soil breathes deeply once again. 

The deepest roots never doubted that spring would come. 

As it stays lighter for longer, birds know it is time to find a mate. They do this by singing to each other. In turn, baby birds learn to sing by hearing their species’ song all around. 

And so, however much coal we burn, however many trees we fell, however many bombs we drop – this force of life appears unquenchable. Nature does not ask permission.   

This irrepressible return of life in spring: such a routine event that we forget to be in perpetual astonishment. This spring, look twice at the blossom and listen twice to the birdsong.  

Be comforted, be humbled by the enormity of implausible healing and renewal all over the world. 

From apathy and despair, we move through hope, to collective reawakening after hibernation. Because there has always been another spring.

Yours in bloom,

Team Positive