Although the Flat Earth Society would disagree, our planet circles around the sun in a tipsy elliptical path bringing us seasons.  A different half of the world gets to face the sun and people get to shed their false skins and return to the sea sans fins, tails and gills.  In places other than the Sun Belt States people put on layer after layer of extra skins to keep warm.  Right now, according to those who study the sky, our days will equal the nights in lengths for the summer has slipped away and autumn is upon us.

We here in Florida, do not have the beauteous display of leaf colors that fill the trees before bare limbs reveal themselves for winter.  One would think that trees would grow a protective layer of bark like animals that automatically produce a cover of thick fur against the angry winter freezes.

It is we, frail creatures that we are, who need protection we call “housing” instead of living in the open air subject to wind, rain, snow and ferocious storms that leave human wreckage behind where once proud structures punctured the sky.  The trees provide a canopy for many living creatures but we don’t live there anymore.  As the earth wobbles its way around the sun its path stirs up the soup of atmosphere that warms the birth of waves, storms, tornados and hurricanes that change the earth by their power.  No matter how we try, we cannot duplicate the erratic strength of natural forces and bend them to our will.  We HAVE created atomic power whose explosions equal or surpass the power of nature but we leave a lethal stew of radioactivity in place of smelly sea-borne weeds and the toxic brew of our own wastes thrown back on us from the sea into which pours our daily production of offal.  We are pretty good at that but when it is thrown back into our faces we must think there is a better way.  No matter how we try we cannot duplicate the erratic strength of natural forces and bend them to our will.  All we can do is try to build stronger walls and thicker protection and hope these natural happenings will not choose us as their target.

The seasons change and bring predictable weather.  No matter how much we plan and prepare it always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.  If we could turn our preoccupation away from competing nations, religions and economies we could build a better place where we could live and enjoy what the seasons bring us; welcome change and new chances to improve on the work of those who came before us.

Learning to live with the seasonal change has more chance of success than ignoring or fighting it stupidly and criminally by choosing incompetent representatives.