Sunday Morning Musings-----A Past Blog Post January 2010
Mid Lenten term blues is a term that is often applied to students around this time of year, especially for those that are away from home. Memories of Christmas vacation seem but a pleasant blur and reading week or spring break cannot come soon enough. Others in northern climates find the lack of light difficult or may even suffer from SAD..Seasonal Affective Disorder, needing special lamps to infuse the extra Vitamin D. Alberta fortunately has cold, but usually bright sunny, winter days, as opposed to overcast, dull rainy months of west coast climates. Most provincial governments have declared a mid-winter holiday ours being Family Day, Monday February 15, 2010 So where have the mid-winter blues hit me personally? Quite frankly I miss being north and I mean further north, working in one of the small Canadian Nunavut hamlets for January and February as has been my pattern for the past 8 years….I miss the hunkering down with a good book in the evening; sewing classes with co-workers and
