A PARTING NOTE FROM VAL

Well. Here we are.

If you've made it to the bottom of this issue, I want you to know that means something to me. Not in the performative, "thank you for your engagement" way that the internet has taught us to speak to each other — but genuinely. You chose to spend some of your one precious life reading these pages, and I do not take that lightly.

I took a season away. Autumn came and I went quiet, the way I told you in the opening letter that I always do — drawing inward, composting, becoming something I didn't yet have a name for. And now it is spring, and I am here, and I have more to say than ever.

That feels like exactly the right order of things.

What I hope you're leaving with today — beyond the recipes for hard boiled eggs eaten on a porch in southwest Florida, beyond the image of Adam whispering Easter egg coordinates to small children who absolutely did not earn that assistance — is a sense of your own turning. Your own seasonal shift. The thing in you that has been resting and is now, quietly, beginning to rise.

I meant what I said in these pages. Spring is not a starting over. It is a returning. And there is no returning too late, no becoming that missed its window, no version of yourself that has been composting so long it can't find its way back to the light.

The green was always in you.

It just needed the season to say so.

I'll see you in the next issue — and in the meantime, I would genuinely love to hear from you. What are you returning to this spring? What is being renewed? Reply to this email and tell me. I read every one.

With warmth, with wonder, and with considerably more ancestral gravitas than I had this time last year —

Val

P.S. — If you're feeling the pull toward More To You, don't talk yourself out of it. That pull is information. I'd love to have a conversation. Just reach out.

P.S.S. — Baby cousin sends his love.

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