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You've written a lovely work; your emotions flow through the words and really delineate your perspective from that period.

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Thank you so much!

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Thanks for sharing this. It’s poignant. My mum died a couple of months ago, so I could relate to some of your experiences. The transition from spring to summer somehow feels extra poignant this year - as if a heavy weight has been lifted off my shoulders and the dark clouds of grief are finally clearing. 🌿✨

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I’m so sorry. And glad if reading this, sharing in that communality of experience, helped in that process along the way. How good and right to feel the burden lifting along with the changing season! I do think that the body/mind keep seasonal clocks with these things — it must go way, way back in our evolutionary history, to connect emotions with time and place.

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Thank you. 🙏✨ The connection between our emotions and the seasons are so fascinating. I guess that’s why nature is such an important theme in poetry - pathetic fallacy etc. 🌿✨

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Yes!

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This is so moving. Spring is in many ways a violent and painful time, ice cracking as it melts with a sound like gun shots, and buds bursting. It's a time of change so fast that we can barely keep up. If you have grief, it will colour every changing moment.

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Yes indeed. Thank you.

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So beautifully written! Touching and thought-awakening. Wonderful how you connect life events with nature’s cycles and our relationship with them. Thank you for sharing.

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Thank you, so much.

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Beautiful

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Thank you!

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