Snow Play

Posted on March 17th, 2010 by Matthew

Well it seems that this year has been a white, white winter for most parts of the country. Even in San Francisco where we live, it’s been unusually cold and rainy, fluctuating from wet and chilly one day to bright and sunny the next and back again. Yet for Maya, Zai and I, usually the Winter’s not complete until we make at least one trip to the snow even if we have to drive to it!

For me, growing up where “snow days” were always a welcomed possibility for that extra time off from school, I find that now I just can’t let Winter go by unless I see some real SNOW! I have to touch it and play in it, sled and snowboard, otherwise I’m just not ready for Spring and resent any sort of hot weather until I feel that cold, cold of snow FIRST!

Living in San Francisco where the seasons vanish into a blended weather phenomenon of sun and fog, where it’s never really hot or really cold, has taken some getting used to. I definitely miss the changing of the seasons where you can actually feel and see the earth morph and move in its ever continuing circle of life, death, and rebirth. There is something about witnessing the lush hot green of Summer shifting to the chilly red, gold, and orange of Fall. From the Fall into the freezing white, white of Winter until the yellows and pinks of warm Spring peek out and life rushes and surges back into the hot, hot of Summer. It’s amazing to watch the creative energy of the Earth, ebbing and flowing, quiet and loud – the colors, the light, the air, all cycling through continuously. It is a great reminder of our own creative power. It’s all the same. Creativity.

Nature is a wonderful lesson in letting go into the flow of the moment to connect with our full creative potential. The great ability to push through blocks to create new possibilities, just think of the massive energy it must take for a seed to push through all those layers of soil. The immense creative energy available to us as we let it flow as nature does.