Autumn is the start of that part of the year least appreciated signalling long dark days and cold weather but as with all matters effecting change there is the pleasure of reflecting on the change its self and the effect it has on much we take for granted.
Lucky are we who have a house and a heating system to blunt the cold weather, a roof to secure ourselves from the rain, a solid enough door to prevent access from those wishing to do harm.
If as we peer out from the security of our home we lend a thought to the seasonal change going on around us, to the preparation for winter of the animals storing food and making their nests habitable and able to withstand anything winter can throw at them to the birds who vacate these shores for warmer lands. The plants who hunker down to out last the frost and prepare for the birth of Spring the fish who adapt themselves by slowing down their metabolism to cope with a water environment that will freeze over.
Mankind has placed himself above and beyond these concerns, one season is much like another, work is non stop and the need to get out modified by a heated motor car and thermal boots. To us the seasons are more symbolic, Summer for holidays, Winter for traditional festivals and a coming together as the weather draws us closer to the hearth and home and instinctively to family.
But there is a change in our temperament we instinctively fear the onset of Winter, not for the damage it can do to us individually but for the weight it brings on life around us. We sense the struggle our genetic coding reminds us of our past and of days when we would also suffer the harsh Northern Winter when the ice cap enclosed us and we knew real hardship.
Today we have other worries as the ice cap shrinks and climate alters the options open for the seasons to carry on as before.
Perhaps we are not as secure as we would wish and "mother nature" has a lesson or two to teach us and shake our confidence in our invincibility.
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