Snowdrops come up in patches like little communities. And upon closer scrutiny, as in every community, there too we see twosomes, threesomes and foursomes. There are those that hold on too tight, and those single one’s sticking out and being a bit aloof, even as it is with individuals and relationships in communities. From the outside a community, or patch of snowdrops looks uniform and united in their “snowdropness” (or purpose/idealism). But on the inside the dynamics reveal themselves. Some blossoms are more tender, others strong. Some are more twisted, some lean on each other and yet others seem to support many stems and blossoms.
In human communities, this is, of course, also the case. So snowdrops as the frontrunners of Spring, ask us to look carefully to enjoy both their individuality and their uniformity!
I heard this lovely phrase this morning in Yoga class: “A flower never competes with the flower next to her. She just blossoms”. Can we do this in our respective human communities?
In Spring nature begins it’s long and ever increasing exhale until it is all out at the height of summer, after a deep, internal winter inhale. What an incredible process to witness!
Those were some of the things I was thinking about as we started to clean up the fallen trees in our yard, picking up sticks, cutting and stacking wood for the next winter to come.
Nature has our back all the time. I feel embraced and connected through the activities the Season’s bring. And I feel the little snowdrops are my Spring buddies helping me to transition into a new time.
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