This morning five inches of snow rests lightly on the deck railing. The pre-solstice snow is always beautiful to my eyes. In January I start to need snow goggles, by March I am as driven as a snowflake in a blizzard, to see the last of it. Falling on all that beautiful snow this morning… Continue reading Plenty
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Kettles and Coolers
Part 1 So here it is, December! I am writing this from the little house in the city. We drove down on Friday night, got here just before midnight. Mist will spend two nights on her own. We turned on the electric heat before we left, so the temperature will not drop to freezing no… Continue reading Kettles and Coolers
Black Friday
A belated Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends! What is this thing today, Black Friday! The names says it all to me! A day of dark doings. We will not be saving money by spending money we do not have. Food and shelter and health care are not on sale, so there isn’t anything of… Continue reading Black Friday
Winter Landscape
An important survival skill, when living a life of isolation, is to structure time according to conditions. Winter, bringing dangerous driving conditions, and requiring strategies for domestic heat, alters the daily landscape. Travel becomes a complex challenge, vulnerable to unpredictable circumstance. In the winter our world shrinks, and we are made aware of the forces… Continue reading Winter Landscape
Kitchen Magic
It has been nine days since I have left these four walls. Time passes without notice. Tonight I am restless, and awake, and I notice. How strange to think, that there are crowded streets, ceaseless lights, and bustle all over the planet, when here the white silence stretches into the black night. Even the bears… Continue reading Kitchen Magic