From Winter to Spring

This week I have been continuously amazed and awe-inspired by a woman from Spain named Priscilla Hernandez.  She writes music; she sings; she writes her own lyrics; she draws and paints.  She makes many of her own costumes, and she is simply a beautiful person.  This song in particular I helped inspire the title for, and it and another of her songs, "Longing to Bloom" have really incapsulated my feelings of late.

With the vaccination effort ongoing, there is this new sense of hope for what is to come, and with Easter just around the corner as the flowers are starting to bloom and storms are throwing themselves against our shores, it feels like there is an overall awakening as from a long, deep slumber.

Today is also SWAN Day -- Support Women Artists Now Day, and while I can think of several women artists that inspire me, I've felt as though Priscilla has been calling me the most this week to share her work, her beauty, and her hope with the world.

I think hope is something all of us could use right now; so, wherever you are, whatever you're doing, I wish you a hopeful spring full of blossoming inspiration, laughter, new friends, and new beginnings--the memories of those we've lost over the past year a touchstone that can grow our sorrows from pain into something that brings peace.

If you'd like to hear more of Priscilla's music, check out her Youtube Page, consider joining her Patreon, and if you're as enchanted by her work as I am, please look up her work on Bandcamp where you can buy her music!

As I mentioned a week ago, I will be taking some time off from writing in April to focus on some other projects--like my own health and wellness, getting back into school, and cleaning up some of the clutter that's been collecting over the years here.  Spring always seems the time to me to reassess and renew--to clean out the old things (or store them away somewhere for safe-keeping,) and make way for the new ones.

I'll still be working on some writing in the meantime, and you may see me pop up here occasionally (certainly for my Sunday letter to the President;) but as of March 31st, we'll be done celebrating (at least I will be.)  I hope you'll continue to look for causes to celebrate in your own lives, and I'll look forward to getting back here come May.  Until then, stay safe; get vaccinated; wash your hands; wear your mask, and be kind to one another.