03/20/2026
To find a new world, maybe you have to have lost one. Maybe you have to be lost. The dance of renewal, the dance that made world, was always danced here at the edge of things, on the brink, on the foggy coast.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Is it Spring yet? March 5th we entered a time of year known as Jīng Zhé in the solar terms of the Chinese calendar, or the time when the insects awaken. It’s such a great description for early spring as we move toward the equinox, I love the idea of the insects awakening being like a call to the rest of us to start blooming. While the darkest blue black is the color of winter, green is the color we associate with spring, what a shift from black to green. Green is the color of renewal, and we my friends are “on the brink” of renewal. Can you feel in your body what green feels like? Laden with chlorophyll, with life, an energy of brand newness, flirty, young, perhaps a little naive, but oh so hopeful. We had a few days of it before the cold returned, the streets were full of people gathering, emerging from the doldrums of winter. The insects are awake and just below the surface of the earth life is about to burst forth. So it is for us as well. Drink your nettles, enjoy the new variety of fruits and vegetables about to become available; asparagus, rhubarb, fiddle head ferns, support your liver with dandelion and milk thistle, symbolically clean out a drawer to cleanse and make room for the new.
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