I suppose I just never thought about it… the very names, words of the seasons (speaking purely as an english speaker here), the actual words have weight and meaning that makes perfect sense. Today is of course the first day of Winter in these parts, the word win-TER, so tense, so terse, so curt, so blunt, like the cold incarnate itself, there is no in-between, no hesitancy in this word, like a chunk of ice, “winter” stands there, like a pillar, no negotiations, “Summer”… also short and defined, but so much softer and warm in the middle “mmmm”, “summmmmmmmer” as the heat drags on and wears down, and only one letter from simmer, but that vowel swap does make the difference does it not? I also though about the affinity of these two months, the non in-betweens that share the same similarity in word structure and power… both “er”s. while the other twins are completely different animals, and as such, their names are more of a fit for them, “fall” and “spring”… looking at them seems so obvious, but such words are so ubiquitous to our daily experience that we might fail to take a look at them as something more than just a throw around term, they could not be less alike, opposites in fact, but they also contain energy (or the draining of), the terms are loaded indeed, “fall”, there is no happy connotation there although there is no inherent “bad” either, but to fall is to fall, top to bottom, up to down, you can not fall up (at least I don’t see how) so the word itself is loaded with weight to drag down, the word has no stop sign, no end, the end of the word is only “winter”, the same is true in the other direction with “spring”, the physical spring, a coiled one, is kinetic energy ready to be released and at some point has to but it is all expectation, once the spring has spring that burst of energy is spent and gone, the spring is uncoiled and becomes the straight line of summer until it falls then shrinks back due to the cold, compression, to be released once more in spring, words and weights and meaning-