Wear Sunglasses in the Rain

When you live where the seasons change, you tend to get desperate for just that.  The season to change.  The first snow of winter is a thrill and the last is met with eye rolls and "Ugh". (And often some #%(*#$  kind of language that I will spare you).  So, we are all waiting for spring.  I guess nature takes over regardless because the grass is green, the trees have leaves, and my hummingbird is hovering at my window reminding me that I now have another little one to feed regularly.  Although this one I get to spoil with lots of sugar!

So what doesn't feel like spring around here is the temperature.  Oh make no mistake, I am settled into my flip flops for good.  But at the same time I am wearing my winter ski jacket to lacrosse and softball games, just to balance things out. It seems likes weeks since we have seen the sun.  OK in reality it was gracing us last Friday.  But that was it!  One tiny day and then back to rain and just about rain and thinking about raining and dreary cold enough to flurry kind of weather.  I have been thinking of lighting a fire each night,  but seem to have lost my pioneer woman edge so late in the season.  I just can't get up the fortitude to go and get the wood.  So I snuggle beneath a blanket or maybe my Wonder Woman Snuggie (oh yeah I have one!) and wish the cold would go away.  The forecast isn't with me on this.

What can you do? It is beyond my control and yet the weather can have some control of me.  Whose with me?  Who out there has to fight the blues when the sun doesn't shine?  And I am OK riding that train for a day or two....grumbling to people and with people about the weather making me feel sleepy and down.  But at some point I do have to motivate!  And so in a complete defiance of nature... I wear my sunglasses perched upon my head even when weather.com firmly assures me that there is absolutely without a doubt no need.  I retain doubt.  Perhaps its the smallest of things, but it gives me hope... it invites possibility.  Without my sunglasses, which in reality are a part of my actual hair do, I am agreeing that today the sun won't come.  I am following as a drone and allowing myself another day displaying  mediocre personality and less then stellar energy into all that I do. 

In the words of Judith Richards, my amazing cooperating teacher and college instructor, "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem" (An African Proverb).  And so I choose to be part of the solution in my most basic of ways. When that sun does shine through, I will tilt my head to the light with the brightest of smiles and soak it in, ready and having believed it would come.  Weather it is sunglasses, flip flops, or a colorful parasol join me and do what you do to make the sun shine your way. Invite possibility.  In fact...why settle for just a little weather change?  Invite possibility!   Let's just see what it can do...