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\"\"<\/a>As I worked on my art response this week I kept thinking about what is a life cycle?<\/em>.\u00a0 Typically, in song and poem the\u00a0human life cycle is depicted as having one spring, one summer\u2026 in the winter of your life and so on.\u00a0 As I pondered this notion I found myself with arms crossed and brows pinched, I refuse to think I’ll never burst out in the green leaf of new summer growth again! And I know for a fact I have experienced a winter so cold and so fallow I thought I would never flower again… but I did. So I\u2019m thinking the songs have got it wrong. \u00a0What if we think about our life cycle in the same way as those old Gravenstein apple trees out in Gina\u2019s orchard, who have enjoyed 130 springs blooming, 130 summers of bursting anew in green gowns, 130 autumns of bountiful bearing fruit, and a 130 winters to lay fallow, to rest, to wait.\u00a0 What if we were to see our lives in such a way?\u00a0 It takes me back to my first art post, thinking about life as a spiral, meeting challenges over and over from a new perspective.\u00a0 Thinking about life in repeated seasons makes the fallow winters seem less frightening, more a time to embrace and rest in knowing that another burst will come full of flower and fragrance and an inexorable urgency to bear fruit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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