A Part of Sisterhood

Creating Community in this Blooming Season

By Charlotte Hack

Being a sister is the greatest title I have ever held and is one that I was lucky enough to acquire just after my third birthday. Luckily for me, I also have a sister (and my brother has two – he’s hit the jackpot!)

Before anything else in my life, there was sisterhood: a community and relationship built upon sharing an intertwining of girlhood, seasoned with blooming emotional connection and a shared mutual uplifting through each season and dayspring. Getting to share my girlhood entirely with my best friend – my sister – was truly something special, and it was the first time I had found community in safety, emotional vibrance and a shared understanding of growth, renewal, and supportive friendship.

With the arrival of springtime, I am reminded of my sister, of each blooming season within sisterhood and the importance of community. As warming temperatures and longer days trigger growth within nature the conversation within communities becomes evermore natural to us, once again. As the peonies, tulips and cherry blossoms appear, the language of the flowers surrounding us connects us with community and the importance of it. Leveraging the season’s allowance of renewal and growth, we are encouraged to foster connection and strengthen local bonds after the longstanding endurance perpetuated by winter’s loneliness.

Thus, in this blooming season, we must focus on building community, or defrosting it after an endless run of numb fingers wrapped desperately around mugs of warm tea and dark evenings riddled by damp puddles and all-encompassing, ever-orbiting shadows.

As the flowers reappear, covering a less frosty landscape and surround us as each petal opens towards the promise of extended periods of sunlight, encourage yourself to do the same.

Embrace the transitional components of springtime, opening yourself up to the opportunity of full bloom at the arrival of summer tide. 

As we all step out into the slightly longer days, under the warming shine of the promise of the summer to come, we do so in unison. As the weather warms, the opportunity has arisen to transition from the isolation and loneliness of the wintery warm fire side chair to the return of shared community under a lighter, less imposing sky.

The sisterhood returns, away from the confinement of the glacial hibernation we spent a lifetime cocooned within. Stepping out into the spring-filled dayspring is synonymous with the return of sisterhood and the vibrancy of the scheduled, longer summer evenings ahead.

Utilising the vibrant, transitional nature of this new and hopeful season to encourage collective activity and connection, is as much a part of sisterhood simply being or having a sister. Slide into the comfort of new adventure under the fresh, crisp breeze, melt under the light of each unspoiled dayspring, embrace the endless opportunities for connection and contentment as we edge closer to an expansive summertime.

Spend time inside sisterhood, re-enter the community, outside amidst the spring-full landscape, alive and refreshed. Replenish your friendships, build new foundations for the flourishing ahead.

Be at one, now the winter has gone.