I remember from giving birth that "transition" is the most difficult part of ->what-is-supposedly-> the most natural of all processes. I learned that just when things in life start to change - often in the most painful of ways - and at the exact point of when you think you've reach your breaking point, your full capacity, you transition into a new paradigm. You've been tested; you endure, and you inure.
We adjust to our new reality and if we are truly adept, we embrace it and go forward stronger and with wisdom borne of experience.
So here at cottage land, in our place of peace, nature is serving up advance notice, warning signals that she is entering transition. And soon the lazy, humid days of summer will be filed under "memories 2013" and the mysterious ways Mother Earth will reveal themselves. The birch leaves will yellow and be the first to fall; they already are. The maples will don brilliant crimson and fiery orange before shedding their cloaks to stand bare and tall to face the Canadian winter.
But for this weekend, the last weekend of the summer, we will give a nod to the signals and cherish these last few days at the lake. Autumn will arrive soon enough an with it, bring its own label of stunning. There will be great beauty in this beloved season of transition, as well as a little sadness that yet another year has passed. But as with any transition, there will be more goodness and blessings to come.
Beautifully stated and so true.
ReplyDeleteIt's also 'transition time' here in Florida. We're readying for hurricane season and then pray that it goes out to sea and not enter our little space in the world. Selfish though it sounds, we dread losing our power...when all is darkness.
ReplyDeleteAnd then in the dark of night we sing...hello darkness my old friend, I've come to be with you again.