Haibun: Making Spring
I’m always caught by the speeds of spring and fall. Lulled into a seemingly predictable pattern of “hot” each summer and “cold” each winter, the flux of spring always demands attention.
Now think about the chaos of learning a new skill or subject: the rush, the frenzy to learn everything at once, the confusion, everything that goes into getting an understanding of something new. There’s a push and a pull of information or practice, there’s a rush and an exhilaration and lots of let downs, a time of winning and many times of confusion. When paradigms shift, it feels unstable as forces collide. But with persistence, concepts and paradigms start to align and all head in the same direction and the skill or subject is mastered.
So as the sun stays in the sky longer and burns a little brighter, a little warmer. Yet there’s a cold breeze or shade spot to remind me of where we were headed not long ago. And on another day it is both sunny and cloudy. But this is how momentum changes in the opposite direction: zigs, zags, and then we realize we’ve been in summer for a while.
clouds cast a shadow, some sun
spring sometimes aglow
