February Sun

What do you do when spring is getting close but still it is rainy, gray and cold?

It has been a long winter so when the sun came out today and it was somewhat warm, the kids wanted to go outside to get some sun and play.
K-5 found the washtub full of water and wanted to play in it, but of course the water was too cold, so we dumped it out, washed it out and filled it with warm water for him and the other little ones to play in.

A nice respite from the long winter.
It is amazing what a little sun on the body can do for one after months of gray, cloudy, rainy skies! The kids went from being so–so as far as being interested in anything to fully charged and excited and ready to go. They have not been overly interested in much lately and not seemed to have as much energy as they normally would in summer. K-5 often is a bit fussy and tires easily but today he is raring to go! after he had been playing out in the sunshine for an hour or so, it was as if he had been supercharged.

Now, don’t get me wrong – – excessive sun can do damage. But some sunshine is vital to health and well being. Here in the Pacific Northwest, we don’t seem to have strong sunshine most of the time and in the winter time, it is low in the sky so there is not as much energy from the sunshine as there in in the latitudes further south.

In their book, “Into the Light”, Dave and Jaja Martin speak of the effect of weak sunshine in the far north latitudes and how it is common when the sun does shine that people sit in the sun to absorb the energy that they can from it. It really does work.

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