seasons

I'm reading a book by Annie Dillard called Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and I love it for the most part. In the fifth chapter she writes

"So. I have been thinking about the change of seasons. I don't want to miss spring this year. I want to distinguish the last winter frost from the out-of-season one, the frost of spring. I want to be there on the spot the moment the grass turns green. I always miss this radical revolution; I see it the next day from a window, the yard so suddenly green and lush.....This year I want to stick a net into time and say "now," as men plant flags on the ice and snow and say "here." "

This year I'm very ready for the changes spring brings and I want to be better for the change. I don't want to remain in doors and be unaffected by the new life found this time of year. I want to be ready and see and feel every minuet of this fresh season.

Dillard also quotes Van Gogh who said

"The people, are very sensitive to the changing seasons."

Perhaps the seasons give us a new leaf to turn over and we often miss a chance to become more full of life in the months that follow. But this year will be different!