The Importance of Seasons in Storytelling

"I love seasons identify the season of your story and you've given the listener an enormous amount of information with a single word so my first sentence is going to be I step off the bus into the sunshine of a spring afternoon that's pretty good" "Start with action as close to the end as possible now I have some new goals  I want to identify the season. I want to identify ages because you might be picturing me as a teenager at this point and I don't want that confusion at all," he says. 'You always open with yourself'