Fall. No, Summer. Wait I'm confused.


Wednesday morning was quite cool on the bike ride in and never really got very warm all day. We had a cold front come through. The temperature during my morning ride was about 58 degrees or so. I don't think we warmed up much above 70 all day. Back to school stuff is in the stores. It really felt like Fall even though it is only July.

The cool weather, the quite of Summer with the students gone, the back to school ads in the paper triggered my Fall psyche. I felt myself turning inward like I do each Fall. Something about Fall makes me become introspective. I also tend to become less social. I want to work out by myself, take walks alone and think, write in a journal ;-). I can tell when Fall is approaching by the shift in my outlook and in my diet. When Fall hits full swing, I suddenly want warm ginger bread with lemon sauce. It sounds good in Summer but I don't make it and don't really crave it. When I have hit Fall full on - I crave warm ginger bread with lemon sauce.

The weather has flipped back over and almost all of my Fall-ness has evaporated. Today is 85 degrees and sunny and bit humid. I have been working in the garden all day - weeding, laying weed blocking cloth and hauling bark mulch around the yard. We are back in full swing Summer. Melons are just coming on at the Saturday Market so my psyche is swinging back around to outward and sun.

Subtle triggers in our environment cause big shifts in my psyche regardless of what of the calendar says. I feel a bit muddled stuck in the middle of the Fall - Summer mental switch.

Posted: Fri - July 25, 2003 at 04:56 PM

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