Right In front of us, in the air, in the joining time to a longer light, is spring preparing the lesson that nature is teaching us.
In long dark dreary winter each of us runs inside and hides from pounding difficult cold. Light is in short supply and the feeling of old lingering stale air too often wins. It is a time when the place we prize is our closed off house or apartment and the car shields us speeding to where we dare not walk.
This inside portion of the Midwest life does not contain many sunshine days to break through the raw gray months. How like our own winter moods is the weather of winter. You begin to hate going outside during these difficult months until light starts breaking through. As the weather changes from cold to warm, attitudes also shift from longing for warmth to overly loving sunny days that we were looking forward to.
In my life I look forward to changing seasons because it signals the passage of time which is difficult.
For those with autism the weather has a profound impact on our mood, so we anticipate its change. How often have we hit a dark dreary place in our lives, and perhaps wondered if we’d ever look at light again?
Nature is perfection and tells us all things, even the darkest times, will pass.
