Spring is Here!

Last Sunday, I got up more drained than ever. It slipped my mind that we were required to set our clocks forward. I found out at the very last minute!

So, as soon as the clocks got turned forward, the weather changed almost instantaneously! It was warm at night! Thunderstorms woke me up at 3 a.m. in the morning. Oh I remember when I first got here and I thought how strange it was that it would sunshine during the day and be thunder "stormy" at night. Now it's like the spring passage!

Of course, I have to say, I've become the expert on how far thunderstorms are away from my immediate area. It almost seems like a comfort to hear thunderstorms as I drift off to sleep, rather than trains running across my neck of the woods, never failing, around midnight every night. How strange our mind works when noises become necessary for us to go to sleep. It becomes so habitual that when these sounds are gone, we find ourselves wide awake.

Rain and shine, thunderstorms and lightning all through the summer seemed weird to me at first; Now I don't know if I would like it if it were any different. It wouldn't feel like North Carolina anymore.

I think that each place we live has its own unique culture and growth. Each place has one thing that makes it a home. It can be something as simple as hearing the traffic noise as one drifts off to sleep, or the sound of the wind in the dusk of the evening. It's a sense of comfort; It's a sense of knowing that this is where you are in your life. Other places can remind us of our home, but something will be just a little bit off, such as the people, or the way the trees are positioned around the houses.

Every place is unique. Our comfort grows as we know what to expect from our living environment. We become accustomed to it, comfortable with it, and find it hard to break out of that environment, that is, if we appreciate the one that we are in. Other people need a change and need to find a place the fits right for them. North Carolina fits right with me. The wind, the sunny days, the thunderstorms, have become so consistently inconsistent, that it feels natural for changes to happen instantaneously. Walking in the warm wind that blows across my face is one thing that I am waiting for as summer approaches. All seasons have something wonderful and unique to offer. I'm glad I get to experience spring here for the first time.