Seasonal Celebration Archives - Page 4 of 5

This past weekend I let myself be free. At around 2:00 o’clock in the afternoon on Friday I pushed all my lingering work in a drawer,

This year’s spring has been a revelation, sweet and slow. The mountains here held winter much longer than usual—we’ve even seen April

February is the only month in our calendar year when we are encouraged to not only celebrate, but explore love. It is a time of both

I was watching a cat, calico and sunning herself on the metal roof of our shed, when the weather suddenly shifted. One moment the light

The new year arrives subtly. After the long holiday build-up of champagne and anticipation the calendar shift, so stark on the page,

Spring is the season of renewal. It is a time for cleansing, releasing, letting go of all that which you kept and counted and swaddled

Spring has crept into these mountains like slow rain. Soft and almost imperceptible, if not for the bright flashes of forsythia and cherry

The older I get, the deeper my love for winter grows. Bemoaned for its long nights, dull days and monotonous cold, January is often

These days I’m part of a community that largely does not celebrate the holidays or, more generally, questions the season as a cause for