Hi Artists,
On Easter Sunday, I felt pulled to pick up my friend Sasha’s beautiful book For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World and reread the chapter on spring.
Did you know that the reason we have seasons is because earth is on an axial tilt? Imagine never experiencing the cherry blossoms in full bloom. The wild freedom of a warm summer night. The air turning in the fall. Even the days getting shorter is something to celebrate.
But spring! Spring is the transition I long for more than any other.
Sasha writes: “All these spring legends are about suffering and heartbreak giving way to joy. Each contains a secret, a hidden miracle, offering hope when all seems lost. This is spring itself.”
When Sasha was little, her mother invented a holiday called Blossom Day. “Gifts were exchanged, but the biggest gift was the idea that celebrations could be invented, that we could choose to honor what was most meaningful to us.”
Sasha’s book is about rituals — the ones we inherit, the ones we borrow, the ones we create for ourselves — for finding meaning in our lives.
That’s part of the magic of #the100dayproject, right? What rituals are you creating for yourself? How do they give you meaning? What new celebrations might you invent?
XO,
LJT
P.S. I already had my first day of not feeling like doing my project (Day 7!). I did it anyways. It felt great. Keep going!
Art by Sharon McPeake