Emerging

      Today the doors to the outside stood open for several hours, for the feeling was that maybe, just maybe spring might be around the corner. The first real day of thaw. Around the eves of the house there is a constant dripping. The icy footpaths began to be slushy. I could feel real warmth coming from the sun. Finally I now understand why the Swedish people stand, sit, lean out of windows even with their faces towards the sun, on sunny days, especially as the winter breaks.

     So what a good day to reopen my blog, now sadly neglected for several months. For some reason my planning to do it all properly, by writing it up first and editing. Then copy and pasting into my blog so it was "right" made me shy away from the meat of the idea. Now throwing all caution to these spring breezes, I type directly into "the box provided"!

     Ah, what a winter. What thoughts, contemplations and meditations. What experience, what learnings, what understandings. Some I will remember and record here, while others will remain frozen in time. I certainly understand why the Eskimos have so many words for snow, for there are certainly many moods, types and ways with snow. From a light fluffiness to hard semi thawed, snow with crust, snow turned to ice, snow with a shiny sheen making the fields sparkle like lakes. snow crystals that sparkle in the moonlight and so many more. 

     Then the many ideas, how to live this life here, what ways to become more and more sustainable. Observations, what are the priorities? 

     I tell myself to write this blog so the material can be used for my book, which means I have many stories to tell ............. should have done that during the winter!! But, no, little bits here and there, it'll all add up. 

     The trees have all lost their covering of snow, not even the sign of frost, and the icicles drip with a steady rhythm heralding the thaw!