Melting

I have been noticing that as the winter has stretched on towards spring well even though we aren't there just yet, I can't help but feel the softening of the earth and all the creatures in it! I am even going so far as to say that I am slowly starting to emerge from this protective shell I had built so concretely around my heart... Not that I was trying to cut myself off from everything and everyone I just felt that a "break" was needed. I couldn't try and act like all of a sudden my world was a basket of roses again. I was rebuilding in my little "cocoon"  and hoping to reemerge a better person. I feel that was my lesson to learn this past year :)