Here We Snow Again
Okay, I rarely post more than once a week anymore, but I can not keep such weather joy to myself. I must share! My drive home from work:
In wood and water, earth and air,
A silence everywhere.
— Loreena McKennitt, “Snow”
Okay, I rarely post more than once a week anymore, but I can not keep such weather joy to myself. I must share! My drive home from work:
Okay. I’ve been rewriting this blog post all week because it keeps sounding too negative and depressing. I think a lot of what I’m thinking and feeling comes from aging and feeling all the possibilities move out of reach in so many areas of my life. It’s hardest at work, where most people are younger…
It was kind of a lazy day today. I went to church in the morning. Came home and had lunch. Then put the tarp I bought yesterday on the kennel. I fixed a tire on this thing. I’ve been waiting about three years to get this tire fixed. No one but me to fix it…
During the year of the snowless winter that sucketh, it was difficult for some citizens of the Minnesota kingdom to get excited about skijoring. Those people (like me) who tend to be more into the fun aspect of hooking up to a dog and having her bound down the trail, propelling them on their skis…
When you find a place in Nature where the mind and heart find rest, then you have discovered a sanctuary for your soul. — “Eternal Echoes” by John O’Donohue Family members from Arizona and California can’t figure out how I can stand Minnesota winters. I answer that you can always put on enough layers to…
In the not so distant past, my reaction to fear was to have panic attacks that turned my body into the enemy, which was a good distraction from battling ‘the thing’ that was making me afraid in the first place. Such attacks are rare now and when they happen, it’s on a smaller scale. Face your fears… that’s my current motto.
Oh, how the perception of time changes over a lifetime. Right now, I feel as if I’m in a race against the ticking of the body-break-down and death clock. Which is actually two clocks. In two different time zones. Hopefully.
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Good grief! Enough already.
Oh the dogs make it hard not to smile … but warm wishes to YOU.
Yuck! I couldn’t imagine still getting snow!! Hope it warms up for you soon. Although the dogs sure do enjoy it!!
Go away winter! Go away winter! Although the dogs might be disappointed!
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Love the photos of the dogs playing. Someone should enjoy this…shouldn’t they? I love to snow shoe but I am DONE, DONE, DONE…I want to move on to planting a few things (in this shortest of all growing seasons EVER!)and get to biking already.