A Season For Introspection
Posted on | May 24, 2010 | No Comments
Quiet — darkness — wetness — cold. A season abundant with introspection.
Winter is at hand — a mere few days away now — and already our temperatures are hovering near zero each night. The winter-ish wardrobe has been brought out of the closets once again and wool socks are definitely one of the daily necessities now.
In an annual reprise of my life-long pattern of winter behaviour, I have settled happily into a very creative space once again. Cuddled up in the aforementioned woolly socks and other soft and slouchy clothing, my brain is bursting with writing ideas and straining at the need to get at least some sleep in each 24 hour period when all I want to do at times like this is arise, gulp down hot coffee or endless cups of tea, and then write-write-write for as many hours as I can hold my eyes open per day.
It is a return to the fruitful darkness — the time when the seeds of future growth sit and percolate quietly in the colder temps, darker days, longer nights. I usually do my best writing at this time of year when that hot and all-too-bright Australian summer is no longer stunning my brain cells into inactivity. Another blessing is that I have never been affected, as many of my friends seem to be, by SAD — Seasonal Affected Disorder — where they crave the sunlight or need to supplement the lack of it with colour-corrected indoor lighting that simulates sunlight.
It is a very personal issue for this former resident of the Northern Hemisphere and I know that these sentiments are not universally felt by others who have fled the icy snow-filled winters and migrated here from Europe or North America or Northern Asia, but I feel more alive in these particular months than I ever do during the sun-parched ones. The leaves may have fallen from the trees and most of the plants are moving into dormancy, but we have one very particular thing right now that we don’t have most of the year.
Green — the colour of growth and renewal and, to my heart at least, hope. I truly miss the all-year-round shades of green in the Northern Hemisphere — so this colder, darker, greener, cuddlier-cozier time of year simply sets my heart alight and my brain is recharged and ready to write once again.
Wherever you may be in the world — may YOU feel similarly inspired right now!
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