August had simmered to a mildly uninteresting close.
With its departing it had taken the hope of summer ever amounting to anything on this weather obsessed island.
Warm days are to be grabbed and cherished and so few people can live sufficiently in the moment to remember the good days. I have always wondered that people have no memory of the last year, and it all seems to meld into a mush of “rubbish summer.” The truth about living in the Northern Hemisphere is that we don’t get tropical summers; we do get good periods of better weather and then immediately forget them because we are working to pay for our two weeks in the sun.
I don’t remember much about last year, but I do remember sitting for weeks on the roof terrace on my sun chair, squinting at my phone while watching the exploits of Harvey Specter and his colleagues.
Something strange and unusual happened as September began; there was no wind, not a breath! For the next six weeks the eery calm continued and day after day there was blue sky, relative warmth during the day (for the time of year) and crisp fresh nights.
This is classed as boring weather, there is no great analysis takes place in the meteorological world (perhaps there was on the news channels but I have no time for the talking heads, headlines and out) it isn’t exciting weather. Elsewhere in the world there are typhoons and hurricanes with their horizontal rain and flooding; the camera crews are all over there.
Those weeks of silence were just bliss for me, it meant that there were no maintenance concerns; no roof leaking, or tiles flying off. The garden project that I am working on at weekends with my son could continue to make progress; we can head off and enjoy the turning colours in the trees without excessive mud or extra layers.
It’s just a lot easier to live in this weather.
Carter Conlon who is Pastor of Times Square Church in the centre of New York has often referred to times like this as a regenerative time; he said that when all is calm, enjoy and prepare because invariably, sooner or later something is coming.
Yesterday it came!
The day had been another calm and sunny affair, my work had taken me outside and I was enjoying the solitude and silence of my surroundings. It started with the rustle of a torn bag on the fence, that was the first indication that something was changing; over the afternoon the wind speed grew an intensified until, by late afternoon, it was approaching the ferocity of an office fan. I looked at the poor bag and was sobbing, “yes Katy (Perry) I do feel like that plastic bag.”
No, that never happened!
But although the wind did bring rain, it never even came close to a hurricane.
What it also did overnight was cleared many of the trees of their foliage; naturally speaking it should be windy at this time of year. The unusual calm that we had been enjoying was just that, unusual; reality needs to return and the cycle of nature must be in balance. The trees must shed their leaves in preparation for the winter months; they can’t be hanging on there using next year’s resources.
These weeks have been good weeks, not just because of the weather but because I am learning to savour life.
We (I) need to be connoisseurs of our lives, in all of its vagaries, finding the sweet aromas of life where we are right now.
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