Let us remember the teachings of trees 🌲 With every passing year, trees living in temperate regions develop a light ring in spring and summer followed by a dark ring in fall and winter. Together, a light and dark ring form a year in a tree’s life. They grow older as new rings form, simultaneously ancient and ever new. The same is reflected in our perception—some days can feel like years, dragging on and seemingly never-ending, while others feel as if they pass us by in the blink of an eye. Both, however, are marked by the light and the dark, and how we choose to view and respond to either. 
 As our own rings form, they contain every season of our lives and every version of ourselves—a reminder that neither growth nor time are linear. Even what seems like going in circles is still part of our expansion.
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