I am currently struggling with the season blues. I’ve been hit hard, after my sickness– over four days at home with a nose stuffed with tissues to try and plug the gushing mess. I know I probably shouldn’t be sharing this but you need to know how hard a sickness can affect one– not only physically but also mentally. My skin ached, my ear drums felt like they were going to burst. My head was going to explode and fall into a million pieces to say the least– all this and I still had to nurse, and take care of a house full of sick people. I must say I was hit the hardest, so baba came to the rescue despite his own misery.
Mentally though was the most challenging. It’s been frigid outside, the kind of fridgidness that makes one scream as soon as the cold wind air hits ones skin. You peak out and you see squinting faces, and rushing feet hurrying to their cars or the warmth of their homes. And it snowed and it snowed and it snowed some more. Only now all the pretty holiday lights are gone and all you see are sad abandoned snow covered remnants of what stood once in full gleeful glory.
Today dear friends is indeed deep winter in this little nook I call a blog. A hard white, harsh winter. We will allow this only today though. Then tomorrow the sun will shine, and the snow will glow and turn magical again. The wind will sing and dance instead of howl in solitude, and I will enjoy the warmth of family and the arrival of the girl’s sweet little cousin. We might stay indoors for some warm meals and hot drinks or we might go and disturb some white fluff with our tubs ( sleds) and squeal and giggle and forget how much sometimes the stark season can be quite the challenge.
Hope you’re having a challenge-free season.
Peace.
Filed under: Winter
Brrrrrrr and I thought we had it bad! God help you get through this winter! I miss the sunny, mild winters of Alexandria…. and how after it rains, the sun comes up and you even get to see a rainbow every now and then… … me goes off to dream