Let There Be Light
by Rosalind Foley on 02/02/15
What a difference the sun makes!
Even if it doesn't raise the temperature much, it elevates the soul. With sunshine we see more color. The sky is a brighter blue, a cardinal more vivid.
I've long known I am affected by the loss of green in the wintertime. One November I went by plane from home to the Midwest. It was a shock to my senses to leave a green world and arrive at a brown one.
When my Louisiana-born daughter-in-law lived a few years in Cincinnati and she couldn't stand the blank slate of winter any longer, she would bundle up the little ones and take them to the indoor botanical gardens. I really cannot imagine how people cope where there are endless days or nights. Their bodies adapt, I suppose. Something within me, though, needs the balance of light and darkness.
2014, for all its infirmities, taught me my blessings. I hope for more time now to observe and comment on this writer's world.
