Sunday, January 15, 2006
Wistful thinking
Good morning again! Missed church, overslept; it's in the 30s on the porch, a nip of weather which tends to play havoc with my husband's asthma anyway.
This weather/winter season has got me to thinking. I never experienced nor saw snow until I was 17 years old... my family moved to Black Mountain, North Carolina, in with my grandparents; I was starting my senior year in high school; I moved after going to school in Central Florida with the same gang of friends/enemies/acquaintances since preschool. My senior year in high school is not a year I care to recall in any detail... I went from a senior class of about 725 to a senior class of 123; some of my classmates in NC were already married and had children... a different mind set and culture from whence I had come.
Anyway, I finally saw snow. It doesn't accumulate in any great abundance in NC, though. I have, to this day, never made a snow man, never made angel wings, never had a snowball fight, never been on a toboggan or sled, never ridden in a sleigh... These are all things the child in me still wants to do. Unfortunately, my husband has an aversion to being anywhere where the temperature falls below 70 degrees... I have told him that I wish to budget for us to take a short trip anywhere where there is snow so that I can at least build a snowman, have a snowball fight, and ride in a sleigh... he is doing his best to dissuade me, but I stand firm in this... sometimes I'm quite wistful to re-experience the wonder of seeing it snow at night against the porch light. That's as strong a memory for me today as it was when it happened ~ more than 30 years ago. (I hate to admit to my age). I think "armed" with inhalers and all his meds we could manage about three days somewhere in the snow... I just want to go outside in it, build a snowman, throw a few snowballs, plop on the ground and make angel wings, ride in a sleigh, and gather multiple pictures of my time in the snow...
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