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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
March 19, 2024

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Weather Eye: Reflections on what Smoothie the frog, author Ruskin teach us

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Years ago, I had a resident small frog in my yard and could always hear his happy voice when it was raining. He would gather in the downspout resonating throughout the gutters.

He had a bit of a hiccup to his joyful sound. I named him Smoothie, imagining one tough little frog serenading the lady frogs. In times of warm, dry weather, I didn’t hear a peep out of him. I’m sure if he could, he would have complained to some extent of the weather. Or would he?

We humans seem usually to do the opposite — mostly make some noise and complain. Too hot, too cold, too wet. When we are content, we remain silent, for the most part. I hear many complaining about the recent hot weather, wishing it were fall with the cool temperatures that accompany that season.

Author John Ruskin once wrote, “Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”

That may be up to discussion when devastating weather strikes, but for the most part I can see his wisdom within his writings. I for one, as you may know, simply do not enjoy hot weather (anything over 80 degrees), but I try to take it in stride because I know others do enjoy it.

Bedsides, what can I do to change it? The older I get, the less I complain about the weather and try to rejoice more when the weather is to my liking. Maybe we all could learn something from Smoothie and recall the words of Ruskin.

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