[Seasons: Winter VI]
The winter sun is not the same.
I think Father Sun and Mother Nature conspire against half the globe three months out of the year. Nature decides to bring cold temperatures, precipitation, and long nights; the son agrees to stay low in the sky and never heat up.
As we know, it’s the same sun. It’s just at a sharper angle, which lengthens shadows and makes for shorter days. At a different angle, even the light appears different, the “high” noon has a whiter, crisper hue, and both ends of the day are full of softer pastel shades. The angle makes all the difference.
One of the gifts of winter is that we see our lives from a different angle. Light refracts differently and the shadows are more prominent.
What do the changing colors of our life teach us this orbit around the sun? What have we ignored about our shadows? What looks different now that I thought would never change?
Winter is the seasons to ask these questions.
