To bloom after the gloom

We’ve reached the part of the year where the sun is slowly starting to stay out longer every day. Where our Southern California weather starts to feel like what the movies always depict it as, and very confused flowers start to bloom in earnest because the days are warm. I love this time of year. It always feels like a promise of something new and exciting. My mood lifts a lot at this time, and it has definitely been reflected in my reading. It’s kind of funny to me that I manage to read more books in the shortest month of the year than any other, but it always happens.

This is also the time of the year when I finally start to decide what I want to focus on in terms of self growth. I know other people seize the beginning of the year with both hands and make it happen. I just never have been able to do that. When it’s still cold, dark and wet I don’t have the energy to think of anything but rest and reset. I guess I’m like the flowers that I mentioned above haha. Give me the barest hint of the warmth to come, and I open up to greet it.

As we near the beginning of March, I hope that all of you out there are doing well and being kind to yourselves! I hope that you’ve found lots of reads that made you smile, that made you think, and that softer things are in store for you as the year unfolds.