This is the breath before the first word. The world is a tender, reckless green. Sap rises like hope in a young heart. In this season, we plant without knowing if we will stay to harvest. We fall in love with potential, with the scent of wet earth and the audacity of a bud splitting a gray branch. Mistakes made here are forgiven; they are just experiments in growing. We are all beginners in Spring, drunk on the light.
Life does not move in a straight line. It spins. It is a wheel, groaning under the weight of seasons, each one bleeding into the next. We are taught to name them: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. But the most important season is the one that comes after the end—the and . Spring- Summer- Fall- Winter and Spring
The white silence. The world holds its breath. We look under the snow and see nothing. No green, no gold, no fruit. Just bone and root. This is the season of reflection and regret. The old man sits by the stove. The lover stares out a frosted window. In Winter, we meet our ghosts. We feel the cold of what we broke, who we left, who we failed to become. It is a hard teacher. But Winter does not kill; it preserves. It forces the seed to wait. This is the breath before the first word
The fire of doing. The seed becomes a stalk, the stalk becomes a fruit. This is the season of sweat and long shadows at noon. We work. We build empires of sand and steel. Passions are not whispered but shouted. In Summer, we believe we are immortal. The sun is high, and we mistake its glare for our own power. We accumulate, we possess, we burn. It is glorious. It is exhausting. In this season, we plant without knowing if