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Bleak darkness
Shivery cold
Violent wind
Surrounding signs of death in nature...
became oppressive in Winter.
Only occasionally adorned with icy frost-gilded branches
or lovely white blankets of snow...
Despaired it would never draw to a close.
Then the slow, subtle transformation unfolds
Buds burst, leaves unfurl...
Cascades of colors replace the gray
while the moments of sunlight lengthen with each passing day.
True, we appreciate it after Winter,
the comparison rendering it all the more lovely.
But beyond that...
Unless the old leaves die and fall away in their autumn-hued finery...
there could be no new growth.
Spring can only be all that it is because of Winter.
I must be reminded of this truth in Winter...
and embrace it, as I welcome Spring.
Spring is pleasant and attractive...
and an annual reminder of the hidden beauty of Winter,
the season whose bleak, harsh repose ushers in Spring on its heels.
RJS, 2008
This entry was posted on May 31, 2008 at 07:40 am by mrs_r_schermer and is filed under A day in the life....
