It is that time of year again. The seasons are changing. The weather is getting colder. The leaves are changing colors. The animals are all getting ready for the hardest time of the year. A friend of mine remarked yesterday about one of the neighborhood squirrel She said she sees it every day at the same time run across one of the electric wires carrying an acorn in its mouth and jump into a tree. No doubt it is storing up food for the coming winter. We had one last year that kept gathering grass clippings. I think it must have wanted a warm bed for the winter. It is normal for animals to change their behavior with the seasons. It is mostly about survival for them. Have you ever noticed that people often change their behavior with the seasons also? As the weather gets colder and they are forced to stay inside more many tend to get more cranky. I myself tend to sleep more in the colder seasons.
SWITCHING SUBJECTS SLIGHTLY: We have all these holidays in the fall and winter. We are supposed to be happy and gather together and love each other, but more often then not people do not feel it anymore like they did when I was a kid or before. I have some theories on why no one really has the holiday spirit anymore. My first theory deals with the stores running all the holidays together. It is not even mid October Halloween has not even passed yet WHAT THE HELL IS CHRISTMAS STUFF DOING OUT ALREADY. Is the all mighty buck that important that the marketers really need to burn everyone out on Christmas nearly 3 months BEFORE it gets here? I remember when I was a kid our Christmas tree never went up till the day before Christmas. My dad would go out and chop down a live tree and bring it home. We would decorated it Christmas eve. When we woke up Christmas morning there were presents for everyone under our tree as if by magic. If I could work my will I would make a law against stores putting out more then one holiday at a time. There would be no Thanksgiving exclusive things in the store till after midnight Nov 1, no Christmas stuff till after midnight Nov 26. If people were not bombarded and over whelmed with all the holidays running together as one maybe we would get our Christmas spirit back. Even Children are becoming jaded by the stores quest for the dollar. I remember being a child and going to JC Murphy's and seeing all the Christmas decorations and setting on Santa's lap. It was magical. Now even setting on Santa's lap is commercial. At our local mall if your child sets on Santa's lap they do not allow you to take a picture of it yourself. You must buy one of their overpriced pictures if you want one, and then they will try to sell you snow globes and key rings and frames to put the overpriced picture inside. So many people use the holidays as a reason to get drunk, and I am not talking having a glass of whine with your Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. I am talking full on drunk. Drunk enough you no longer care it is supposed to be a joyous holiday nor do you care if you ruin someone else's holiday either.
I think for the most part people have became so self absorbed they have no place in their hearts for someone else's feelings. If they can not make money from it they are not interested in doing it. I SAID FOR THE MOST PART! I know a hand full of people personally who will put their friends needs first. I have one friend that takes care of anyone that needs her and does not ask for anything in return. I have another friend who is always thinking of those she cares about. We need more people like this in the world, and less that are only looking for the fast dollar.
OK BACK ON THE ORIGIONAL SUBJECT: With the weather getting colder I have began thinking about putting down the area rugs my brother got me for my birthday. The floors here get quite cold in the winter. It will soon be time to get out my warm blankets, and flannel pjs. I love the changing colors of the leaves in fall. Too bad I have became allergic to them over the years. I was watching a TV show the other day. Some intercity kids were going on a field trip to the mountains to see changing leaves. The teacher asked them to talk about it. One kid said fall leaves seem to scream look at me you think I am beautiful. Then another child said but really I am dead. So many of us do not really realize she was right the leaves only show the colors that were there all the time, and only when the leaves stop producing the chlorophyll that makes them green as the leaves start to die is when the other colors show through. Is it not odd that in death can be such beauty? Well I have yammered on long enough hope you all have a lovely autumn.
