Lotus Unfolding

My inner bear is awakening to the Spring, where I used to feel quite reclusive and tired over the last few months, throughout Winter, I have noticed with the switch to daylight savings I have more energy; the smell of Spring is on the wind, the Spiders have awakened and are making tangled messes of web in my patio, the rosellas are even more abundant as the trees outside begin to bud and bloom, and the Sun gathers us all in his warm embrace, whispering of balmy summer nights spent on the edge of the lake watching as the raccoons come out to forage for food in the picnic areas.

I don't have access to the lake like I used to, Spirit Lake was a wonder that filled a good five or more years of my life before I left Wisconsin. My ex and I spent many nights down there with our kindred sister Joanne, we would wait until the moon was high in the dark night sky, strip down and go skinny dipping in the warm waters of the lake. We would float for hours in the water, enjoying each others' company, and then retreat to a roaring fire on the shore of the lake.

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