There's something about the smell of fall that triggers good, let's-start-over feelings internally for me. Its back-to-school, new year, new phase, new everything feeling actually feeds my New Year mentality more than the actual New Year.
I know I am not alone in this. So many people -- women, mostly -- have been saying the same thing to me.
I love the crunch, crunch, crunch of walking on baby acorns, gathering them up in my hands and understanding what they mean to this earth, this cycle of seasons.
I often wonder what it's like to live in a place where there are no seasons. My Creative Soul is at the mercy of the seasons like my body is to water. When spring and summer fall upon my part of the world, I am at peace and create like a mad woman. Deep in the belly of winter and summer, I am scattered and lost and hardly productive at all.
At least I finally understand this about my own rhythms and ebbs and flows and can embrace it, as frustrating at it is at the time.
Still, fall brings with it so many other struggles such as loss of daylight and my inability to get myself out of bed early without a mean alarm clock. And yet that is exactly what I need to do to get things done.
My friend Stacey, with her own blog, recently commented on developing a fall schedule. This is exactly what I have done for the last few years, not just for fall but for every season. I write lists upon lists of what my ideal schedule should look like -- when I'll exercise, when I'll write, when I'll enjoy the crisp, fall breeze. I will also write lists upon lists of seasonal gifts to enjoy such as picking apples and pumpkins, going for hayrides, hiking and walking through corn mazes, into the deep woods and, of course, cooking my seasonal favorites. I will spent most of my time outside, drinking wine and coffee and apple cider. And writing.
Oh goodness, the writing. This season's writing can make my mind spin with excitement. I hope it doesn't disappoint. That is, if I can just hunker down and carve out the time much like carving out the features of a poet in a pumpkin.
How about you? How will you fall into creativity as the season's change? Does cooler weather bring more clarity to your pursuits or not? I'm curious to know.
Summer and Fall are good for my productivity, creativity, & insight. In Winter, it all mostly goes down the drain with small spurts of inspiration like the fleeting moments of Winter Sunshine.
ReplyDeleteWinter has classically been a season of "waiting it out" and hibernation. During those long, dark, cold months, I routinely question whether the creative and inspired me will ever come back. The first breaking of Spring does not mark a new energy for me as it does for many. It usually takes a hefty and continual dose of Spring for me to find my muse again.
Once I can put the top down on the convertible, it's full steam ahead.