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This is an easily read piece but profound in many directions depending
on the mood and attitude of the reader. It first reminded me of a Ray Bradbury (one of my favorite sci-fi writers when I was a kid) story. I don’t recall the name but was about a time when the earth no longer had a sun, rather a pre-ice age era, where the rain never ceased turning all the earth into a tropical rain forest and man built sun domes every so many regions.
I had forgotten about my brother’s propensity toward SAD this time of year also until my sister in law phoned yesterday to remind me. My siblings have a predisposed tendency toward depression this time of year. I still go through an after Christmas low, but since adding exercise events to my week and Vitamin D to my calcium at night, seem to move beyond it rather quickly.
I met with my brother this morning and gave him a hug. He looked uncharacteristically spent and forlorn. I mentioned the vitamin D and exercise but looked beyond solving the depression, considering he’s fairly self-help motivated. I told him I believe sometimes its okay to hunker down and do a little self nurturing, hibernate a little and let go of needing to be up all the time. If someone doesn’t know why they are suffering its one thing but if they do and don’t do anything about it, it may be they just need to be sad for awhile, nothing wrong with being sad sometimes.
As you have also written, a religious person might interpret it in another extremely profound context (which I would). The sunshine has to be found on the inside of us (especially in Washington, lol), because we can’t depend on it from the outside. We have no control over external circumstances but we do have control over our own thoughts and faith.
posted by
roadscross
on January 31, 2008 at 5:37 PM
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Kind readers...
thank you.
posted by
Simplerider
on January 30, 2008 at 11:49 AM
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posted by
star4sky5
on January 30, 2008 at 6:02 AM
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posted by
afzal50
on January 29, 2008 at 5:39 PM
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Your poem captures the natural human emotion. Excellent!
posted by
BC-A
on January 29, 2008 at 4:45 PM
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That was wonderful!
posted by
CRShelley
on January 29, 2008 at 2:20 PM
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