Spring Manifesto
Spring is a season which I feel deep resonance with and really enjoy. Creating a sense of intention around this season feels particularly meaningful for me this year. It’s the first Spring in my business and it feels like this is the time to start really creating the roots and early shoots to establish the new things I’m planting.
During the spring months there is a burst of energy as nature wakes up, the light levels increase and we experience more daylight hours until the summer solstice. Helped by what is going on outside in nature I start to really find my feet in the spring season, feel more flow in my work and feel uplifted by the growth. Perhaps it’s getting out in the garden, planting seeds and enjoying the bulbs in bloom planted in early winter to give me space and something to enjoy alongside my work.
As the seasons shift my rhythms and routines shift, I wake up early during weekends and feel the call to write whilst the house is quiet. Evenings are less about what to watch on Netflix and turn to doing more energetic activities and being creative. As with every season I want to create a guide for me personally for the season ahead. I’ve been writing manifestos, which help me navigate the season ahead and help guide me through.
Writing manifestos has been part of a seasonal rhythm I’ve shared on my personal blog lucyellenhill.com since 2016, for many years sharing them and sometimes just keeping them for me in my journal.
Creating a manifesto has been a helpful way to support my mindset and wellness. Spending time thinking about and writing a manifesto has helped me cultivate more connection and intention within a season.
Writing words connected with the season and creating small intentional moments to shape the seasons is a way I like to elevate my everyday. The seasonal manifestos have become the anchor I enjoy having, helping me shape the experience from one season to the next. Each year is different as life has shifted, there are themes which pull through each year but the intent behind each part of the manifesto feels unique to the year I’m in.
A seasonal manifesto is a place where I write statements which encapsulate ideas about a feeling or experience I hope for in the season. I create them in an open way allowing interpretation to shift and flex. They are there as a guide rather than something needing to be ticked off and finish, they are not a bucket list or a to do list. I take cues from themes I feel are present in the natural world around me to help shape how I want to feel, and create ideas and wisdom to return to. I like to blend my manifesto with my word for the year so it feels aligned and supportive at the same time.
My Spring Manifesto this year was written at the spring equinox to support me for the season ahead and will create an intentional focus until the summer solstice. I write each manifesto and give it a little time to see how how it feels reading it with a week or so from writing it ahead of sharing here. I’m looking forward to how my manifesto will shape the season ahead and support what I need it to during this time until June.
Spring Manifesto
Make time to sit and pause, quieten my mind and notice
Capture the season to enrich my memory keeping
Plant seeds and remember to tend to them
Nourish my spring time rhythms
Cherish the phases of the season
Make time to sit and pause, quieten my mind and notice
Creating space, a reminder to pause and be still this season is something I intuitively feel I need. Sometimes spring can create the energy where I’m constantly on the move and finally able to do the things I want to do. My mind feels full of all the possibilities of the time ahead and especially so this year. By making time to sit and pause, allowing my mind to quieten will help me notice how I’m feeling, what my inner chatter is saying and what feels good and where I might need to place more care and attention in my life.
Capture the season and enrich my memory keeping
Increasingly I want to return to a physical form, an analogue and offline approach to memory keeping. I adore photography and want to take more photos this year to help me grow a more enriching memory keeping experience. Seeing this form of offline memory keeping around me draws me to wanting to capture the day to day imperfect photos to help me capture moments of our life. Capturing the season in photos, words, videos and ways to bring this to life more feels like something I want to invest my time in. I want to see what I can do this season to capture our family memories differently ready to print photos, create photo books or something like a scrapbook or journal.
Plant seeds and remember to tend to them
Planting seeds is something I do during Spring, both metaphorically, with different things I want to nurture and grow in my life, as well as physically with actual seeds. I get excited to start things and sometimes struggle to tend them as much as they need. This season I want to plant just the right amount of seeds and create ways to remind myself to tend to them. Adding them into established rhythms will likely help and having more clarity and focus about what I want to do will help.
Nourish my spring time rhythms
During the spring season my rhythms slightly shift and change. We have a number of weeks of spring holidays and I want to create a new holiday rhythm to keep connected to my work in small chunks so it isn’t as hard to return after having had a few weeks off with family. Nourishing the term-time rhythms are important for me this year as I want to find a way to rest but also stay connected.
Cherish the phases of the season
Spring comes round every year but we won’t experience this exact spring again. My daughter is 6 and with each year the seasons look a little different. I want to cherish the moments more as a family and by capturing the season, documenting them and being more present to help me cherish these days which feel very special.
I’m still in the first year of my business and what I feel is an early phase of Frondescence and I want to enjoy this phase whilst enjoying those moments of learning and doing all the new things. I feel I can cherish these early years as much as when things are more established and feel a little more familiar.
My spring manifesto feels like something to support me and our family life in a nourishing way. Creating it has helped me feel where I need to place my energies this season.
Wishing you a wonderful spring season.