WORKING WITH YOUR SEASONS
- Sophie Shaw
- Oct 6, 2025
- 2 min read
One of the reasons I love living where I do is that it's very flat - you get these huge, beautiful skies and incredible sunsets.
Sometimes it feels so expansive, so uplifting, so light, that I wouldn't mind if it was summer all year round.
And then I realise - nope, I wouldn't actually want that.
The biggest reason I love living here is all the green. I adore the lush, overgrown wildness of it - the coolness of the forests, the jungly wildflowers, the little winding paths, the ancient oaks, the great open fields, the wind washing over the crop heads, turning them into a silvery wave.
It's all an endless source of deepest joy for me - Nature's free anti-depressants.
And all of it requires - guess what? Rain. And seasons.
That amount of richness, fertility and growth doesn't just come from endless sunshine and open skies. It also requires a lot of weather - the kind I'm not really a fan of. Rain and wind, coolness, and grey clouds.
It requires a cycle of seasons - time for growth, time for stillness, time for retreat - and time for death - which then leads to regrowth and rebirth.
The same is true for you.
Your life is meant to be beautiful - but it is also meant to be seasonal. You are meant to experience joy and pain. To laugh and cry.
Your tears water the fertile ground of your joy, which is growing within you, like a burgeoning seedling, ready to burst out of the soil and show its face to the sun once again.
When you start working with your seasons, honouring each in its turn, you live in peace with yourself, demanding nothing more from yourself than who you are today.
If the clouds are with you right now, know that they are your teachers, your friends, your tender gardeners. Sunshine is coming.
And in the spirit of seasons, I'm now taking a wee break for a couple of weeks.
Is it time for a break for you, too?
Love you,
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