Blue Sky

It's a great thing to wake up to blue sky in the mornings!! Or actually... it's an amazing thing to watch the sky lighten from black to grey and then to blue! To know that it is going to be a gloriously blue day with sunshine and warmth. Everything seems possible when the sun is shining. Everything seems doable when the sky is blue. It makes us what to get up and get moving. It makes us what to engage with the world...

And then there are the rainy days... of which we had far too many in September... days on which we don't want to do anything. Days on which the gloom never seems to lift outside and our houses are dark and lights need to be burning...

It's funny how our spirits can often mirror the weather... If the day is sunny... people tend to be sunny as well... and if the day is gloomy... well... we can end up being gloomy as well... But does it have to be that way? Clearly tragic things can happen on sunny days as easily as on gloomy days... So, a sunny day is no guarantee that things in our lives won't turn gloomy at some point. But could we wake up to a gloomy day and create a different mood in ourselves... other than gloom and greyness? Clearly we can... we have the choice and we can shift our thinking and our perception of the world... But sometimes that seems to take a bit of effort... but imagine the rewards!