We've been hibernating with our sorrow, but nature won't let us grieve forever | Health & wellbeing

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Green shoots and spring buds tell us that life goes on, despite the Covid crisis, and that we will know joy again
A long-tailed tit perched on a budding hedgerow. Photograph: Rebecca Cole/Alamy
A long-tailed tit perched on a budding hedgerow. Photograph: Rebecca Cole/Alamy
Tue 2 Mar 2021 04.00 EST
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I’ve been trying to think of songs about spring, but the ones that have come to mind – Nina’s Simone’s I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes), Billie Holiday’s Some Other Spring – are mournful. Perhaps it’s a reflection of my state of mind. January and February were abject, with upwards of 1,000 deaths a day and people hibernating with their sorrow. This absence of a collective grieving process has felt especially British: emotionally stifled, and cut off from one another, we’ve all been like icebergs, stranded at sea.

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