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Hi, I’m Carie. I write daily posts about navigating these times.

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Don’t you imagine (I just suggest it)

I’m always so excited for spring. But tonight I noticed peonies blooming, and peonies don’t bloom in Denver until WAY after I file my taxes on April 15 at 11:59 p.m.

This fair-weather loving human has much enjoyed our unusually warm winter and dry spring but it’s not sitting right in my soul.

Carie Behounek 3/27/26 Carie Behounek 3/27/26

Whistling Swans by Mary Oliver

Rumi said, There is no proof of the soul.
But isn’t the return of spring and how it
up in our hearts a pretty good hint?

💞