{"id":203,"date":"2006-04-16T13:38:40","date_gmt":"2006-04-16T13:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php\/2006\/04\/16\/changing_season\/"},"modified":"2006-04-16T13:38:40","modified_gmt":"2006-04-16T13:38:40","slug":"changing_season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Changing seasons and getting older"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Easter<\/a>.
\nIn Melbourne<\/a> Easter traditionally marks the final end of summer regardless of what the weather is like. Sometimes we will get a warm Easter and sometimes it will be quite wintery. This Easter has been more wintery than warm. I started out with a long sleeved shirt on Good Friday but by early afternoon I had changed into shorts and a t-shirt. Then came the change. The temperature dropped many degrees and we had a heavy rain storm. Hard to imagine two more different weather conditions in one day.
\nThree weeks ago, we were walking along the banks of the Yarra River<\/a> just before 8pm waiting for the Closing Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games<\/a> to begin. We were wearing t-shirts and shorts and it was quite warm – almost hot for that time of day. A few days later the maximum temperature was about 13 and we all had overcoats on.
\nWinter came quickly this years. I love winter, but I hate its coming. Summer represents holidays and slowing down a bit. Everyone is a bit more relaxed about deadlines. I relax more. I love going to the beach. I love swimming and I love the spectacle of it with other people swimming, sunbaking, surfing, playing on the beach and yachting.
\nI’m always a bit sad when summer ends. It means all that is put away for another year and while business gets busy again, the world around slows down a little. In a way it marks the end of another year. I guess you could say the end of any season marks the end of a year, but for me as winter ends, there is the excitement of summer around the corner and summer holidays.
\nWinter seems more a time of solitude. After winter has set in I love it. I love sitting by an open fire when it is cold and pouring with rain outside. I love going for a brisk walk in the cold air. It’s nice that those oppressive hot nights have gone again for a while.
\nWhen winter comes, I’m never ready for the change from out summer sport – Cricket<\/a> to our winter sport – Aussie Rules Football<\/a>. As the football season progresses, I get really involved in it and often listen to or watch the my team’s games. I even watch other games just because they’re on. But at the start of the season, it takes me a while to get into it.
\nBut underneath it all, I think for me, the coming of winter marks the marching of time. It means I am getting older. Also as I run my own business, it means I have to get serious about all those goals I set at the start of the year. It always takes time for things to happen but by the time winter comes, it’s a real test of whether they will or not. So I am getting older and have to question whether I am moving towards my life goals.
\nSo by mid winter I am loving it. At the change of seasons, I have a lot to think about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Easter. In Melbourne Easter traditionally marks the final end of summer regardless of what the weather is like. Sometimes we will get a warm Easter and sometimes it will be quite wintery. This Easter has been more wintery than warm. I started out with a long sleeved shirt on Good Friday but by early […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}