What the Mud Teaches

Spring is beautiful. Spring is also, let’s be honest, muddy. The thaw creates a transitional mess that nobody puts on postcards. You’ve got some residual winter, some emerging warmth, and the in-between is genuinely, literally muddy.

Wednesday and spring have a lot in common. Neither one is neat. Neither one looks like the goal. They’re both transition. They’re both the part in the middle that you have to get through to get to the good part on the other side.

The mud is not a sign that something went wrong. It’s a sign that something is changing. Frozen ground becoming warm, workable earth is going to go through a mud phase first. That’s just how thawing works.

If your Wednesday feels like mud — like things are in-between and nothing is quite resolved — you’re in good company. The ground is warming. Something good is coming through.

The mud means the thaw is working. Keep going.

What’s one messy, in-between thing you’re navigating that’s actually a sign of progress?