Saturday, May 17, 2014
As anyone who follows the weather closely can concur the
seasons of the year don’t seem to mean what they once did. Predictability is going out the window
as the weather patterns become more extreme and bizarre. California began having wildfires
months ago…and it’s now only May.
In a typical year it isn’t unreasonable to expect rainfall in the
northern half of the state into at least March and often even April. Rainstorms in May are a bit unusual…but
so is a wildfire season that begins months early.
Here in Minnesota it is the second year in a row with a
delayed and somewhat meager Spring.
This is also only the second spring I have been living here in
Minnesota. I have thus felt a bit
disappointed by the ‘Spring’ weather.
Winter has been hesitant to clearly cede its place to Spring. But now the world is finally blooming
nicely.
Last year at this time I was traveling in Europe as part of
my McCloy Fellowship. It was a bit
strange because it seemed the entire season of Spring came and went in the mere
nineteen days I was away. When
departing on May 13th of last year the trees were only finally
really beginning to bud out. When
I returned on June 1st the world was filled with greenery. One season seemed to have about
nineteen days. Local meteorologist
Paul Douglas calls the extremes of weather both locally and globally ‘weather
whiplash’. I have to say I agree
with his assessment.
Predictability is indeed flying out the window. What is replacing predictability seems
a bit…ominous.
At this time last year my eyes were still not functioning as
well as they are now. While
standing outside in the bright sunshine this morning I felt a bit overwhelmed
by the brilliance of the sunshine.
It’s as if my eyes are becoming drunk on sunlight…as well as everything
else. Everything is so incredibly
vivid now that I am finally seeing the world in a clearer way and am more fully
present in my own body. Many days
it still feels a bit surreal to be me.
But gradually I am adjusting to the ‘New and Improved Me’.
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