There are 4 seasons throughout the year. Maybe some areas experience little change in climate, but where I am certainly has wide swings. In January it can get down to -10f and August 90+F. That difference is huge! Mankind has gone about using the solstices as a way to dictate when each season arrives and leaves. We have had snow in October. It is a terrible time going out on Halloween with the kids while the wind blows cold and the snow falls around making a frozen mess. My calendar says that winter starts in Dec!
How about before June when the temperature soars to extreme highs while the calendar states that it is spring? Nature doesn’t care about our time. We can divide it and break it down, but nature will NOT notice. It is set in motion following the laws set forth that govern the universe. We must also flow forward according to our nature, all through the heat and chill of our lives. That is freedom.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Last summer was endless.
This winter is endless.
I found, and find, myself enjoying both.
No snow, so far, and though I would have enjoyed that, my wife enjoys the lack of it.
Summer will come back when it does, and we will adjust yet again to working with the seasons.
Growing food and flowers when the sun is hot, burning wood and huddling up when it is not.
Raccoons seem not to even notice the climate.
Cats do, and sleep a lot either way.
My new chimney has worked out fine.
No leaks. Good draw. Happy.
Living each season fully, with no desire for the one over the other, stretches time to its elastic limits.
All is as it should be.
I try to be as I should be, too.
Don't you just love the wise words of Ralph Waldo Emerson? Well I do, and the great thing I've discovered about 'The Natural State of Being' is that it is already patient. The moment is already perfect and is therefore the natural solution . . .
. . . by simply being in the moment, with ones attention here-now, all unfolds as it should :-)
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