The Seasons of Change in Minnesota... May 19th, 2015
My alarm didn't have to wake me up today. Rather, the nearly uncontrollable amount of shaking work me up today. Shaking. I left the window cracked open to get some fresh air last night not thinking that we were going to get near freezing temperatures. It was just after 5:00 am when I finally decided to crawl out of bed to close the window and put on some sweats to regain control of my body shaking. "Soon enough I'll be having to turn on a fan or something so that I'm not sweating at night," I laugh to myself looking at the four green bins sitting on the floor half full or half empty depending on how you take your coffee.
Inhaling the cool air, I understand why we like the seasons! Well the seasons of transition from the Winter's bitter cold to the more fresh and soon to be humid season--we like this part the transition! I guess we like the hot days of summer also, but I think that part goes by so fast we miss it because we're so worried about getting everything we think we need to get done because it's "nice" out. There are cook-outs, bonfires, street fairs, music festivals, beer drinking events, the State Fair, Grand Old Days, 4th Of July fireworks, the Uptown Art Festival, Pumpkin carving, roof-top socializing (which is all we really prefer to do), and yard work. No change of season here is complete without the mandatory amount of yard preparation for the season. It gives us something to talk about when we're not talking about the weather. But, the part of the season when the air is cool and crisp without the humidity, this, this is the part we really like as much as the time when the air begins to cool again and the leaves start to turn color. We like the part where things go from dull brown or grey to an array of green...even if the sky stays grey most of the day most days. So, we really just like the color against the grey backdrop of the sky and the every changing cloud cover! It is beautiful. LOL.
We like this part of the season because it's just a little bit warmer under the sheets or comforter than it is just outside of them...there on the other side of our sheets is a cool, at times, cold air waiting to bring you into reality giving you goose bumps from your skin reacting to it. But there, in the warmth and comfort of your bed under your sheets, alone or next to someone, it's warm making that very last part of your conscious sleep so much sweeter. Until, at that very minute you thought was most important to start your day, the alarm goes off, and now you have to reach out from under the sheets letting the cold in to shut it off, or hit the snooze button! Some people do that. LOL. This is what we love as Northlanders...people from Minnesota. This is how we start our days on days like today.
Maybe, we think of more important matters that only register in our unconscious mind only making it into our conscious one when life-changing events happen to us. There is a beginning and an end to things, and like the seasons, we too have a beginning and an end. The stuff in between those two specific moments in time, the time from our birth to the time we return to the Earth is an orchestra of events we call our life. We start growing up and eventually go through elementary school, junior high, high school, maybe college, and whatever we do to live in between it and after our 'education'...all the substance of things we do for meaningfulness is the color we bring to the tapestry of life that we involve ourselves in here in Minnesota or where ever the wind blows our seed. Like buds on trees that start small and green, we eventually blossom and show our color(s) against the very constant cycle of weather and seasons we enjoy in the great state of Minnesota. We live. We shine. We blow in the wind. We get rained on. We take on some snow, and eventually our color begins to fade. We change. We start over to blossom again until our season, our life season, is over.
There it is.
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