As the Vernal Equinox approaches, the north stirs with renewal—birds return with song to welcome their young, flowers emerge through the thawing earth to bloom, and the day equals the night before it stretches longer, inviting warmth and possibility. 🌸🌿☀️
It’s a season of growth, of fresh beginnings, of life returning in full force. May we embrace the balance between light and dark, the promise of renewal, and the hope of new beginnings. ☯️
"The Enkindled Spring
By D.H. Lawrence
This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green,
Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes,
Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between
Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes.
I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration
Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze
Of growing, and sparks that puff in wild gyration,
Faces of people streaming across my gaze...
https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/literary/poems-for-spring
Seasonality is a critically important aspect of environmental variability, and strongly shapes all aspects of life for organisms living in highly seasonal environments. Seasonality has played a key role in generating biodiversity, and has driven the ...
"#Nowruz: How 300m people celebrate Persian New Year - BBC News"
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"About 300 million people across the world will celebrate Persian New Year - or Nowruz - on Thursday.
The 3,000-year-old festival begins on the first day of the year in the Iranian calendar, and is also a celebration of Spring.
People in countries including Iran, Tajikistan, Turkey and Iraq will be welcoming the start of the year 1398, explains the BBC's Samar Salekipour."
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