How can you
tell if it is spring? Is it the first cuckoo, or the first sign of bulbs
appearing in the garden? Is there a transition or does it happen all at once?
For me, it
is a change in the energy of the world around me. For example, in the winter I
don’t notice that the windows need cleaning; my mind is fixed on keeping warm,
cooking rib stickers, watching TV and getting through the season. When spring
starts to change, I notice that the windows need cleaning, I am cross and
guilty that the windows are so dirty, but I don’t yet quite have the energy to
clean them. Come spring, my energy improves, and I get round to the things that
have been kept on hold for the winter.
If spring
energy is capable of kick starting the natural year, it requires a great deal
of force and if I am not ready for it, it can feel stressed or overwhelmed. In
my experience the seasonal change from winter to spring is often the most
challenging,
When I want
to do things and I don’t have the energy, I can become miserable or angry and
certainly frustrated. I keep trying to remind myself that if there is no time
to see the pussy willows in bud, or to watch the almost daily changes in the
rising bulbs or listen to the excitement of the courting birds, then my life is
sad indeed.
Frankie
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