Weather & Work: A Welcome for Spring

Here in good old Houston, Texas, we don’t have much of a Spring season as many other places in the States. We go from a bearable version of Winter to maybe a few weeks of green emerging, colors blooming, and our skin asking to spend time in the Sun. It’s a grace period of sorts, as after these short weeks of flirting with the idea of a sweet Spring, we’re thrown into obtrusive, relentless Summer heat and humidity that I, even as Houston native, have never become immune to melting in, or learned to overcome.

But now, still within these light days of a fleeting Spring, I find myself wanting to go with the calm of the season. Today, I realized I have not had a cup of coffee in 2 weeks. It’s quite uncharacteristic of the one I depended on and second I’d pour for kicks while our temperature was a bit cooler. It was a ‘Who am I?’ moment, but shortly thereafter, I saw clearly. The weather! The change! New life! A product of open windows and shoes that don’t require socks. Instant wellness, caused by the earth and God himself. It seems I’ve been living in it for weeks before I defined it.

So what is it to you all? Do changing seasons bring more creativity to your work? More subconscious ease to your life? Mostly, I wonder if the new life outside brings out newness in us, and I believe it does. I hope you all can see and feel it. So cheers, from me – from all of us at Blue Marz Creative – to you. As you welcome yourself into Spring and Summer, may your days settle with ease; may you find new ways to invest in your work and in yourself, with nothing more than blue skies weighing on your mind.