Slowly Awakening to the Year Ahead

Spring doesn’t ask you to hustle. It asks you to wake up. After a few quiet weeks and time spent traveling through Asia, we come home to a different pace and a different question: how do we want to move through 2026? As the cherry blossoms arrive and the spring equinox gets closer, we reflect on seasonal living and the way nature models renewal without forcing it. If you’ve been feeling the collective intensity, the constant stream of world events, or a low hum of unease in your body, this i...