Quoting Ladymaggic:

We are born into Spring.
Like the season, we are new and we arrive in sparkling bursts of green and color and we open our mouth and roar into the world.
We learn many things, and we grow and grow.
We study, we learn we discover the world and we take a part in it.
We are Spring...young and beautiful.

Then one day we find a mate, we marry and we have a child.
We become Summer, and our child and children become the Spring that has now left us while we become Summer.
Rich in experience we grow and watch the fruit that has come from us. We are a part of the growth that is our children and we share in their growth and development while our lives develop around the families that we create.
We marvel in the richness of Summer and believe that this will never end.
We are in our peak and the world is ours. Summer is rich and full and we are happy.

But time moves on, and our Spring now bears fruit, and suddenly we discover that we are grandparents and Autumn.
In the Autumn we have to reconcile and accept that the Spring Delight, and the Summer ripeness has started to first turn into golds and deep reds and then start to fade. We watch the leaves as they lose their rich shape, and dry with veins and wrinkles. We search the mirror seeking the rich velvet of summer and find lines of time. Our lives are being etched on our own faces, and in horror we turn inward and away as our husbands, friends and mates look for Spring and Summer and forget they are also in Autumn. Suddenly we realise that Autumn has a beauty too. The rich colors are the souls that have grown and become what we now are...a beautiful Autumn, rich with experience and rich with Love. We watch our children in their Summer, and the grandchildren in their Spring. We smile because we see that we have grown beyond both Spring and Summer and we are Autumn.

Then the Children's children have children, and suddenly we have great grandchildren. This comes as a surprise as we have forgotten that we have reached this stage. We are Winter. It was always someone else who got old, never us. Then there is a growing awareness that another Season has arrived, and we smile in Winter as we hold the great grandchild in our arms and marvel that now there are four seasons in the room. My children in their Autumn, gaze contentedly at their Summer holding Spring in their arms. I smile as the snowflakes fall and fade my hair and skin, but inside the trees are full of power and shelter from the freezing blasts of snow and ice preparing for their birth into another Spring in the new world we have earned the right to enter. The heart is strong, and though the leaves have fallen and the the tree looks bare, inside is a whole lifetime of experience and living. We have seen the Seasons and have lived them all, and rich with this, we smile inside our Winter celebrating all we are and all we know and love.
Winter is as rich and full of energy ready for the Sports of Winter and the Winter Wonderland of life. Now we are really free to enjoy what life we have with friends we shared and have yet to meet and grow.

Whatever Season you are in..enjoy it, as Life is growth and like the Seasons, we too have to grow and change and see that each time has its own worth and beauty.

Welcome to the Season of your life

Maggi Carstairs 2008

We are born into Spring.
Like the season, we are new and we arrive in sparkling bursts of green and color and we open our mouth and roar into the world.
We learn many things, and we grow and grow.
We study, we learn we discover the world and we take a part in it.
We are Spring...young and beautiful.

Then one day we find a mate, we marry and we have a child.
We become Summer, and our child and children become the Spring that has now left us while we become Summer.
Rich in experience we grow and watch the fruit that has come from us. We are a part of the growth that is our children and we share in their growth and development while our lives develop around the families that we create.
We marvel in the richness of Summer and believe that this will never end.
We are in our peak and the world is ours. Summer is rich and full and we are happy.

But time moves on, and our Spring now bears fruit, and suddenly we discover that we are grandparents and Autumn.
In the Autumn we have to reconcile and accept that the Spring Delight, and the Summer ripeness has started to first turn into golds and deep reds and then start to fade. We watch the leaves as they lose their rich shape, and dry with veins and wrinkles. We search the mirror seeking the rich velvet of summer and find lines of time. Our lives are being etched on our own faces, and in horror we turn inward and away as our husbands, friends and mates look for Spring and Summer and forget they are also in Autumn. Suddenly we realise that Autumn has a beauty too. The rich colors are the souls that have grown and become what we now are...a beautiful Autumn, rich with experience and rich with Love. We watch our children in their Summer, and the grandchildren in their Spring. We smile because we see that we have grown beyond both Spring and Summer and we are Autumn.

Then the Children's children have children, and suddenly we have great grandchildren. This comes as a surprise as we have forgotten that we have reached this stage. We are Winter. It was always someone else who got old, never us. Then there is a growing awareness that another Season has arrived, and we smile in Winter as we hold the great grandchild in our arms and marvel that now there are four seasons in the room. My children in their Autumn, gaze contentedly at their Summer holding Spring in their arms. I smile as the snowflakes fall and fade my hair and skin, but inside the trees are full of power and shelter from the freezing blasts of snow and ice preparing for their birth into another Spring in the new world we have earned the right to enter. The heart is strong, and though the leaves have fallen and the the tree looks bare, inside is a whole lifetime of experience and living. We have seen the Seasons and have lived them all, and rich with this, we smile inside our Winter celebrating all we are and all we know and love.
Winter is as rich and full of energy ready for the Sports of Winter and the Winter Wonderland of life. Now we are really free to enjoy what life we have with friends we shared and have yet to meet and grow.

Whatever Season you are in..enjoy it, as Life is growth and like the Seasons, we too have to grow and change and see that each time has its own worth and beauty.

Welcome to the Season of your life

Maggi Carstairs 2008