The deaths of one season is the rebirth of the next

There’s something cruel and holy about the way life ends to begin again.

How everything has to die just a little — or sometimes all at once — before it has permission to bloom.

And I’m learning that healing is seasonal too. That sometimes, the only way to grow is to first grieve what no longer fits.

I used to beg for peace, pray for a life tha...

I hate this part of the year. I don’t want the children to complain when I come around. I don’t want the adults to say “sorry it’s too cold today.” It’s just mean. The only good thing that happens with me is Christmas! Are you kidding me! But here I am about to take over from my good friend autumn to go give the people a “lovely” surprise! Yay.

Summer gave me the lecture about remaining positive...

The seasons are a cycle of life and death. Mother Nature prepares us very young for a life to be cherished. Spring knows that her days are becoming longer and warmer.

Longing for her brisk cool morning, she sips her tea while watching the blue jay take a bath. This morning, Spring is reminded that she has her annual meeting with Summer. When Spring finished her tea, she rushed in the house to ge...

‘How goes it, dear Autumn?’ The voice was low, like the heavy sound of footfall on snow. It belonged to the entity known as Winter.

Autumn frowned and pursed her lips, deep in thought. She turned her golden eyes towards Winter who gazed back at her steadily with his own icy blue eyes. His snowflake eyebrows were raised as he waited for her response.

‘Well,’ Autumn began slowly. ‘All the trees ha...

“Autumn you’re here!” The teenager exclaimed as she ran to the young woman whom had just passed the time gate

“It’s strange usually you’re not this excited, summer” the woman giggled “on the contrary you try to delay me as much as possible”

“Well I feel kinda guilty for last year” summer said not quite meeting autumn’s eyes “I’ve been told that you didn’t have much time here before winter took ove...

Vera basked in the organized chaos of springtime. Plans and petals were scattered across her desk like wildflowers in a field, birds chirped from their nests above the door and window frames, downy feathers drifting in the air, and her office was nearly overrun by the bunnies that had finally been delivered earlier that morning.

Nine months of planning, one month of slowly clearing away Heims’s s...

“These stupid f*cking closers. Every single time, man. We always have to clean up their messes!”

The sun shone brightly, melting the mountains of gray snow towering over the suburban parking lots.

“They just throw sh*t everywhere and trust that we’ll make things presentable before the customers come in!”

Green grass sprouts from the white sludge winter had left behind.

“I’m so sick of their la...

Hey, winter, it’s great to see you.

It was a pretty quiet fall,

But there’s a few things lingering.

First, it’s still pretty warm

So it looks like it will be a wet as opposed to snowy winter.

Because of the warmth, the leaves didn’t really change colors so it rather dull out there.

With the heat, the humans are still wearing light clothes so be nice and don’t go subarctic on them too fast!

Oh, one...

“Okay, that should be it!”

I looked him up and down, trying to read beyond his cold front. Oblivious, his eyes lasered the words on the thick packet of paper. He seemed to murmur and mumble as his finger ran around the words and symbols that were marked on the paper. He stood tall, every part of his body seemed to be placed exactly where he wanted, I straightened my back trying to look like I to...

AUTUMN

“Howdy do, Autumn!”

“Hey, Summer. How was your shift?”

“Ah, you know. Same ol’, same ol’. Lazy days of summer. Kids at the beach. Families in the mountains. People doin’ dumb stuff all over. Sunburns. Mosquito bites. The whole gamut.” Summer asked, “How about you? Did you get lots of rest? No responsibilities for nearly three whole months.”

“Yeah. It was nice. But it...