How has your life been lately?
It feels strange to think that another year is already coming to an end. Yesterday, while chatting with K at work, we talked about how quickly time slipped by, as if it had somehow frozen.

I told K that I missed the last winter. She was gone before I even noticed her presence. I wasn’t fully there when winter was here. My mind was elsewhere. I got lost in my thoughts and perhaps illusions. I got tangled up in the messiness and chaos of life.

Preserving leaves and flowers has always been my way to hold onto fleeting moments, to preserve a piece of time that would otherwise pass.

Maybe what this season has been trying to teach me is to not hold onto things so tightly, to not get caught up in the midst of it all, to be, as Leonard Cohen once said, in “a state of grace”.

For seven days straight, the number 333 kept finding me. I’ve been taking it as a sign – to trust my own path, to accept what is, to create with an open heart, and to make peace with pain, loss, uncertainty and the broken pieces, and to surrender.

Spring has arrived in the Southern Hemisphere. Maybe it’s time for me to appreciate her presence instead of sitting here and mourning the winter I have already missed.

May you be happy.

2025.10.22