Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 First Moon of the New Year<\/p>\n
Cloudy with sun.\u00a0 Another cheery day here in Denver.\u00a0 At the moment though my heart yearns for the closed in, snowy gloom of a true northern mid-winter.<\/p>\n
This is good weather for taking Ruth on a fabric shopping expedition and granpop will tag along to have lunch with grandma and granddaughter. I look forward to this and will enjoy it.\u00a0 Probably quite a bit.<\/p>\n
But.\u00a0 It’s not the interior landscape brewed up by howling winds from the northwest, temperatures plunging far below zero and snow so thick going anywhere just can’t happen.<\/p>\n
Those days find me in my Herman Miller chair, sandwiched between my desk with its two sloped editing and reading stands and my bookcase with reference materials for art history, philosophy, my current novel, the reimagining faith project and work with Latin.<\/p>\n
A crackling fire burns in the green metal gas stove at one end of the small rectangle while my computer and printer punctuate the other.\u00a0 There’s a tea kettle nearby for heating water to a precise temperature for brewing different kinds of tea.<\/p>\n
Here, my body and mind have learned, work happens.\u00a0 An odd sort of work, I admit.\u00a0 Work of the heart and the mind, a wordsmithy, data and information in and paragraphs out.\u00a0 No leather aprons or bulging biceps required.\u00a0 Nimble fingers help.<\/p>\n
Yes this sort of work happens in all seasons and in all manner of weather, but there is none more suitable than the quiet of a snow silenced, cloud darkened day.<\/p>\n
The desire for this weather and this place comes, in part. from missing fall and returning to a weak, almost non-existent winter.\u00a0 More than that though that yearning reflects a sense that I have identified my work, that I have it underway and I want to stay at it.<\/p>\n
That is, however, my feeling this morning, here in the Best Western, before we connect up again with the grandkids.\u00a0 When we do, this will be the best place to be.<\/p>\n
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Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 First Moon of the New Year Cloudy with sun.\u00a0 Another cheery day here in Denver.\u00a0 At the moment though my heart yearns for the closed in, snowy gloom of a true northern mid-winter. This is good weather for taking Ruth on a fabric shopping expedition and granpop will tag along to have lunch with … Continue reading Yearning for True Winter<\/span>