In The "In Between Time"

Waiting and wishing for the snow to fall

To capture the beauty of it's purity within the frame

Snow has alluded us

We have been denied it's graceful beauty

Not to watch it fall and gently cover the earth with it's blanket of white

Instead leaving us with the remnants of earlier times

We are in the "in between time" not winter, not spring

Pinecones nestled deeply within the evergreens

Wrinkled berries clinging to naked branches

Cattails swaying with the winter winds

Empty benches sit waiting for Mothers to return to watch their children at play

We are suspended in the "in between time"

Do you ever feel like you are in the "in between time?"  Not knowing if you should begin anew or revert back to a more comfortable spot, comfortable in a time or a place that is familiar instead of moving ahead to the unfamiliar?  Perhaps you have had changes in your life, some planned, others not.  Maybe you have had all your children leave the nest, off to their new adventures, now what do you do with your added time?  Do you yearn for those earlier times or do you begin a new interest?  What if you lose your job?  Do you search for the same or do you look for something that you love?   You are outgrowing your little home, do you look for something bigger, maybe stretching your budget, or do you relish in the planning and look forward to the new spaces?   What if something happens to your life partner thru divorce, illness or death?  Do you wallow in the sadness or begin a new and different time in your life.  Sometimes I feel like the pinecone and want to nestle back into the comfort of the trees, or the single berry barely hanging on, however I usually feel like the empty bench looking forward to whatever sits beside me, ready for the new.

How do you confront those "in between times?"  Do you want the comfortable old or do you relish in all things new?  Share with us.  

"Why do we put off living the way we want to live, as if we have all the time in the world?"  ~  Barbara de Angelis