It was spring!! And it was a beautiful day to be alive! The sun was high and buds on the trees were starting to bloom. Live was returning to the world and heat breath through the cold fingers that had gripped the earth. Birds had returned to the skies above them, their songs filling the air with their own tunes of celebration at coming home.
Taika raced through the land, as fast as her chocolate paws could carry her. Pink tongue lolled out of her open mouth as if it could taste the happiness she felt in the air. Finally, instead of being holed up escaping the cold, she could run around and let the sun bleach her rusty overcoat and even brighter flaming red. Loping from common land to common land, she took everything in that she could, letting the season’s greetings flood her and energize her in every physical way her soul already had. In the season she had been in this land she had made friends, both imaginary and real. She carried them all with her in her mind and heart, if not invisibly on her shoulders. The tasks she had given herself over the winter she had neither failed, nor completed. Therefore adventures still awaited ahead.
Spring not only meant a new season, but it meant a new year! She was older now. Her body had reached its full potential and thoughts she had once considered impossible started to excite her, and make her curious. Thoughts that terrified her she now had to address. Could her imagination have been lying to her all this time? She had been told she was getting close to an age of ‘maturity’. As she ran, she pulling in her tongue and grinned to herself. The true difference between wisdom and foolishness, maturity and immaturity, was knowing when to be which. She laughed to herself as she jumped into the air of the field, butterflies and bees scattering at the approach of the canine. In her mind she danced with the faeries and the spirits of the air as she launched herself skyward, to and fro, in any direction her body could take her.
For a brief moment her feet touched the ground and she stopped. Not even slightly winded she looked at her feet and took a breath. With the change of a season could her life be at a crossroad? What would a new year be? Deep eyes looked to the bright sky, golden cracked shining with her energy and fire. Her voice lifted into the air in a long howl of joy and excitement as she welcome life, love, joy, and a tad bit of chaos to the world before leaping into the air again to continue her games with everything around her.
Taika
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