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The air wasn’t so quick to bite my face today. In fact it caressed it with a serene wisp. It carried a reminder that spring was right around the corner. For five months I have been reluctant to stand out doors any longer than required as the pain of the cold ripping into my face and limbs was intolerable.
Oddly I took comfort in the bitter chill this year. It said to me that the environment for the time being is still working. It works to keep the winter cold and summer hot and offering a brief view of heaven during fall and spring. Albeit the winters are growing shorter; noticeably shorter than previous years markedly short for New England.
Leaving work today I was awaken by the possibility of spring. The serene 65 degree weather reminded me that I really do love Boston. I was equally disappointed. Winter was ending weeks too soon for comfort. A sign of the shifting seasons it is. The ice in the Charles became slush, the ice puddles to mud. Too soon to be right. I wasn’t going to complain too much. After all it felt wonderful. And I needed that calling back to spring, rebirth and life.
The cycle comes and goes, but the cycles seem to spinning faster every year. So I stop and ask is, it really global warming or, like all people who grow older is just that time seems to move faster. I don’t know. Perhaps I simply am a long for the ever accelerating ride. The wheel of time, buckle up, it’s going to be a crazy ride.
This year will be that bumpy ride. I return to school and complete my dad’s estate waiting one final document. Spring is the season of new life but will always be the realization of death. This is after all the month my dad died. The month I had to face my own mortality straight on. This is the month I new I was moving to Boston. This is the month the two years that will have defined much of the next many years of my life began. This is the month of changes.
So it is fitting that the seasons strike so firmly today. It was a call back to reality, possibility, responsibility and hope. It is the month that will forever change my life.
So the seasons will change and time will go by and I will change. Today was the call to start that new chapter. I don’t know what this one will be lets hope it ends as happily as this one.
Oddly I took comfort in the bitter chill this year. It said to me that the environment for the time being is still working. It works to keep the winter cold and summer hot and offering a brief view of heaven during fall and spring. Albeit the winters are growing shorter; noticeably shorter than previous years markedly short for New England.
Leaving work today I was awaken by the possibility of spring. The serene 65 degree weather reminded me that I really do love Boston. I was equally disappointed. Winter was ending weeks too soon for comfort. A sign of the shifting seasons it is. The ice in the Charles became slush, the ice puddles to mud. Too soon to be right. I wasn’t going to complain too much. After all it felt wonderful. And I needed that calling back to spring, rebirth and life.
The cycle comes and goes, but the cycles seem to spinning faster every year. So I stop and ask is, it really global warming or, like all people who grow older is just that time seems to move faster. I don’t know. Perhaps I simply am a long for the ever accelerating ride. The wheel of time, buckle up, it’s going to be a crazy ride.
This year will be that bumpy ride. I return to school and complete my dad’s estate waiting one final document. Spring is the season of new life but will always be the realization of death. This is after all the month my dad died. The month I had to face my own mortality straight on. This is the month I new I was moving to Boston. This is the month the two years that will have defined much of the next many years of my life began. This is the month of changes.
So it is fitting that the seasons strike so firmly today. It was a call back to reality, possibility, responsibility and hope. It is the month that will forever change my life.
So the seasons will change and time will go by and I will change. Today was the call to start that new chapter. I don’t know what this one will be lets hope it ends as happily as this one.