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It isn’t the Spring Equinox. The calendar might still insist on winter for another ten days. But suddenly, at 4:47 PM, the sun cuts through the kitchen window at a different angle. It is higher, braver. The dust motes floating in the beam look golden instead of grey.

Spring is the season of . It is the earth exhaling after a long hold of breath.

The start of a season is a promise. It tells us that nothing lasts forever—not the sweltering heat of July, and not the dark cold of January.

Winter starts the day you stop fighting the darkness. It is the first morning you wake up, see the frost on the inside of the window, and instead of sighing, you make hot chocolate for no reason.