Tulelake, CA— The passing of seasons
This is my least favorite time of year. It’s cold. It gets darker sooner. Everyone seems down, including me. The holiday blues they are sometimes called. It is hard to get out of bed and all a person wants to do is sleep and do nothing all day. It is not the end of the world but it feels like it sometimes.
It not only happens to me, but it happens to a great many of my friends too. So I am not alone as they are going through it too. The change of the seasons from summer to fall to winter to spring and then the cycle begins again, year after year. The transition of being active and talking nice walks, with or without dogs in tow, in some cases it could be children out for a stroll with their parents or ride bicycles and being care free.
Winter approaches and it is time for sweaters, colts and jackets. Warmer clothing and being bundled all up, where before it was dashing through sprinklers or swimming in the ocean, lakes or pools. Being carefree and having plenty of sun light to do it in as if the day will never end. Now the days end before they even start it seems before we know it, it is dark out side so the activities are now taking place indoors in the comfort of the warmth of our homes. No longer running AC’s or fans to keep is cool from the blistering heat outside but instead now the sound of furnaces or heaters going off or the crackling sound of logs on the wood stove or fire place to keep us warm, instead.
Where the sunlight puts us in up moods, the darkness does just the opposite and puts us in down moods. But the good news is it will pass once our bodies and mind readjust to the longer darker hours of sunlight coming from the longer days and shorter nights to the longer nights and shorter day.
Sometimes I know we all feel like we are in a darkened dungeon, with no hope of getting out as the nights seem longer and the days shorter. But there is always hope, hope we will make it through another season of the blues and move on to better days once all the winter holidays have passed and the spring holidays approach and the days begin to get longer as the nights once again are shorter.
So hang in there, we are in this together and you are not alone, we will get through it, those of us that get the winter or holiday blues. The rest of you that it never affects, you are the lucky ones, have a little patience and understanding with those of us who are not afraid to admit we get the blues. We will overcome it, and life will go back to being normal for everyone, soon. Those who never have the blues and those of us that do.
I kept it short, just like the days.
Written by James Garland of Tulelake News
PO Box 772
Tulelake, CA 96134-0772
Home Phone (530) 667-4744
Cell # (530) 708-7852
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