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Aug 15Liked by Robyn Ryle

I love this! I too am a little obsessed with the seasons and it’s something I talk about with my class year round (tbf it is on the science curriculum for ks1 so it does serve a purpose beyond “I like talk about them”) I think it’s one of the benefits of working in education that you get to mark your year through the seasons. I’d be interested to know if the transitions have anything to do with our energy levels too!

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Oh, I remember doing this awesome diorama of the seasons back in kindergarten or elementary school. At least in my memory, it was awesome.

I certainly get very restless energy at the transition from summer to fall and winter to spring. I also feel like in the long seasons (summer and winter) my energy level drops.

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Aug 16Liked by Robyn Ryle

Absolutely! I find in the UK our winters can feel like real slogs by the end of January even if it’s a mild one. And our summers are seeming to start later and later each year we’re all over it by September and just want the leaves to turn!

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Aug 17Liked by Robyn Ryle

This piece is wonderful, Robin. That feeling of being part of nature is heightened when the seasons turn. There is a sense of knowing something deep in one's bones, something about time, impermanence, need starts, letting go, acceptance and if course the sometimes terrible beauty of it all. Here in San Diego the seasons are far more subtle but they change enough to evoke the same feelings and memories rooted in years of long winters and short summers in northern New England.

Thanks for this one and thank you for sharing that finches travel in charms. The perfect term for them.

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Yes, that's exactly it, Betsey. The deep knowing and the terrible beauty of it. Nature trying to teach us that things die and are reborn, over and over again. There is a bittersweetness to the turning of the seasons, especially summer to fall.

Glad there are seasons in San Diego.

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