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From the Introduction:

As I begin to write these words it is still winter and I must dive into my imagination to anticipate spring and the joy of blossoming. I enjoy winter more than most
people I know with the bare beauty of trees and snuggling indoors by a fire.

But it is in the movement toward blossoming I discover a new joy, as the world
begins its shift — the slow tilt of the earth back toward the sun, the days growing longer, the air getting warmer. It is almost imperceptible at first, but gradually we can feel the quickening of the earth set in motion by the thawing ground.

These last several days as I move to complete this project I have seen clusters of
crocuses thrusting themselves out from the ground into the brilliant sunlight. The branches of cherry trees begin to hum, preparing to burst forth. Small shoots are ready to press outward, anticipating their explosion into a pink spectacle of petals.

I believe deeply that the seasons have a great deal of spiritual wisdom to offer us if we make space to listen. They teach us of the cycles and seasons of the earth and of our own lives. We are invited into the movements of blossoming, fullness, letting go, and rest, over and over again. Just like the lunar cycles of the moon’s waxing and waning, so too does the body of the earth call us into this healing rhythm.

As we enter the season of blossoming I invite you to tend the places of your life that still long for winter’s stillness as well as those places ready to burst forth into the world in a profusion of color.

As always I am grateful for your support of my work as writer and artist by purchasing this volume. May it bring you some of the joy of this season.

Blessings of spring to you — Christine Valters Paintner