Changing Seasons

This comes to us from our close friend and mediacl advisor Linda Lee who has been a fixture at the Medical Clinc in Yosemitie Valley and on the search and rescue team for the past 7 years:

When I moved from the coast to Yosemite, I so appreciated the changing of the seasons. The summer heat has left us. We now experience brisk mornings, the golden colors of the grasses, and the dogwoods color of pink and magenta. A season, a year, an era, and so goes the transition of life.

Life is a process of beginnings and endings. In both human life and nature, there are times when things move slowly and don’t seem to change much. Then one day, it can be felt, sensed and our perceptions anew. Life transitions are challenging because they force us to let go of the familiar and face the future with a feeling of vulnerability.

The seasonal employees within the park are dispersing. I ask many where they will go during the winter and if they will return for another summer here in Yosemite. The response is mostly to return and capture the magic that we all feel when here. But it will never be as it was, each passing has it’s own character, an episode, like the rings on a tree. Transition in life gives us a time to reflect and learn about our strengths. It also is a time to explore and redefine what is important to our soul.

I also will be in transition this autumn and leaving the park. With hopes to return next summer in a new role with NPS, I will pause to thank each of you for letting me into your life on the intimate level of nurse to patient. It is an honor that I respect highly.

Embrace transition and the gifts that change reveals. To your health!
Linda Lee RN, FNP-C

Linda Lee will be posting the Balanced Health column from afar as she travels to Guatemala and beyond this winter.