Mariposa

 Butterfly. The creature that symbolizes freedom, growth, expansion. When I saw this shirt, I knew I liked it as it had to do with the beautiful creature, and something I was thinking about. Something new, a new season, a new growth all its own. 

It reminded me of the beginning of the school year. In August, it's the freshness and clean slate of a new school year that feels so different, unique in its own right. Reading a book about a refugee story and a swimmer called 'Butterfly', doing the butterfly in swimming and for fun, and thinking of all the names for butterfly in different languages. 

I sense that this new season, this summer will bring about this butterfly in me. There has already been so much growth, especially internal as this school year has brought and I embraced it, but what I feel and foresee what's ahead is different, new, maturity, wonder, and reflection. 

I think it's beautiful, as butterflies are, but what made that butterfly have its beauty was a season before that made it wait, grow and prepare for the next. Seasons that are hard, are well, challenging and painful, and raw. But I seem to remember them well because they hold a sacredness, a beauty, a gem, a growth that only that particular time knows and my heart, mind and soul knows so well too.