If you follow my blog (and thank you so much if you do), then you may have noticed that every year, coinciding the past several weeks that have passed, I become quiet. I go into my shell and stay there for a while. Not that I’m sad or anything. I just inescapably become the “frozen snow” in this dark, lifeless world that is winter. The cold creeps slowly and engulfs me. I am not lost, just trapped in this gloomy alternate reality. I want to break out, but I am held back. And without inspiration, there wasn’t much to say.
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But I am not without hope because I am reminded…
“Even when it’s cold like this, I always remember that spring is on its way. It’s sort of neat to think about. No matter how much snow there is, it’s all going to melt. It always does.” – Tohru Honda from Fruits Basket
And with this, I begin to wake up again every morning with fresh eyes and a more spirited disposition– knowing that I’m not bound by the seasons and letting my family be the “fresh vibrant spring” that melts this frozen snow.
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“When the snow melts, what does it become? It becomes spring.” – Fruits Basket |
hello! i have been stopping by to see when you’d reappear and sending up little prayers for you until you did! :) i really like what you said about your family being the spring that melts the frozen snow . . . i see it that way to as i believe that God works through “people” to love and bless us while we are hear on Earth . . .
love your pictures . . . as always . . .
tell the girls i said hi! :) i always enjoy reading about what creativity they’ve been up to and trying the same with my Tatum!
Thanks Tami. Glad to hear from you again. I have been telling the girls about you and Tatum – they said Tatum’s fish is lovely! :D