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A Collective Reading for March 2026

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Ivana Esther Martínez
Mar 01, 2026
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Inside the Collective Reading for March 2026
- A Dance With Time
- Our Collective Card to Usher in Spring

A Dance With Time

March Mood

La Llamada/The Call (1961) by Remedios Varo. Oil on Masonite. Turns out this piece is on display at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Part of their permanent collection. Right here in D.C.! Must go ASAP.

Dear Aesthete,

My Walter Mercado gown is on so let’s dive right in.

What a year it has been — and the first quarter of the Gregorian cycle isn’t even over. This is where the collective card for March finds us, taking stock and sobering up. Yes, we have a ways to go but there is already plenty worth celebrating because we are still alive and taking it all in.

For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, sensing spring can feel a bit like dancing in a roulette of uncertainty. Thanks to the climate crisis, every year the dance is a little off. The paces are not as predictable, transitions are no longer clearly delineated, the tempo keeps switching up and the flow of winter into spring is never exactly how it used to be. Still, the cold eventually dissipates. The light of the Sun lingers longer. Calls for snow turn to calls for rain. Trees offer up glimpses of their blooms. Meanwhile, we keep up and dance; finding our collective rhythm once again.

Walter!✨

Our Collective Card to Usher in Spring

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