My year goes
counterclockwise. It is three-dimensional, not flat. I am looking at it and
traveling around it. Winter is on the bottom, Spring on the right, Summer top,
and fall on the left as you see the diagram. But my orientation (right or left
turns) is based on where I am during the year. For example, in August, as I
face fall, I am turning left and down. In May, as I face summer, I am turning
left again, and up.
Diagonal line through
December represents Christmas, at which I sense a turn in the year.
Vertical line through April
roughly represents Easter.
Diagonal line in May
represents a turning that I sense around Mom’s birthday, (May 6) Mother’s Day, and
school being out.
June turns from the right
side of the square to the top around my birthday (June 17) and the Summer Solstice.
The vertical line through
July represents July 4.
Diagonal line in September is
Labor Day weekend, when the year turns downward toward fall.
Horizontal line through
November marks Thanksgiving and the beginning of the holiday season.
Shapes of the months seem to
roughly correspond with the amount of daylight.
May and June are not perfect
ovals. They are more amorphous. I couldn’t get the drawing tool in Microsoft
Word to make the shapes I wanted for these months. But in a pencil sketch, they
looked almost like amoebas.
I think that this concept
comes from the school year. Psychologists would have a field day with it.
When I have to stop and think
what month or time of year it is, I have to picture myself on this diagram in
order to orient myself.
My months have colors, too.
September: terra cotta; October, red-orange; November, grayish black; December,
red; January, white; February, murky gray; March, green; April, rose; May,
green; June, blue and yellow; July, yellow and red; August, dark red.
What is your shape of the year?
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