The Seasons

October 25, 2015



This is an essay I wrote about the seasons. I do like them, in spite of my love/hate relationship with winter. I like the fast and complex northeast. It will always be my home. Here's an essay I wrote about the light/darkness. The seasons are directly related to light and dark. I wrote on this subject.because with all the frantic episodes of nature, it might be interesting and consoling to other people.


The lightness of love and the darkness of pain - this is my emotional experience of light and dark. The light enlightens, but the dark delves deeper below to bring us closer to truth. We definitely need a balance of them. As a child, I was told I had my days and nights mixed up. I would sleep all day and cry all night. This explains something about me I think. I struggle with varying degrees of light and darkness hoping to eventually bring balance within. Sometimes, I go to bed early, waking up in the dark before dawn and living in the beautiful silence and stillness of early morning before all the hustle and bustle of day arrives. I love this time. I find it both creative and spiritual. I associate it with blue, purple, green - the cool colors...the blue gloaming, the blue frost, purple darkness and the green of the moon.

The light, with all its everyday incidents that make up life is the substance I need for energy and observations. It is where I'm part of the world, instead of the stillness of the night. Its radiance brings continuing awe and wonder to my life coupled with all the love and affection I receive from other beings and the beautiful things they say and do. Here I live with the thick of life.

The bright yellow, red and orange - warm colors, revive me, take me to places and help me get things accomplished.

The peaks and valleys of moods also come to mind. I can feel happy like the sunshine, or sad in the darkness. But there's light in the blackness and darkness in the light. So I have my ups and downs, but eventually land on solid ground where everything is balanced and even.

The silence of night can be scary or beautiful. The hustle of day may be lively or aggravating.The summer oceans and tides, when I'm drifting on the surface of the water bring me peace, but so do the miraculous winter wonderlands.

The adage, "Variety is the spice of life," rings true to me, and I definitely have a relationship with the four seasons and light and dark. The light is definitely the heart and the dark is the deep soul. Both make up the wholeness of life.