The morning is cold, cold may be an understatement. The morning is frigid, harsh, and unrelenting, it’s bitter cold, not crisp and refreshing. The wind bites and slices like razor blades, yet the skin remains unmarked. Words and thoughts can be the same, cutting deep and leaving no visible trace of the damage done. Once things are done, they can not be undone, and once some things have been said the words take seed and grow like weeds in someone’s mind. Our own self-doubt nourishes the weeds and so a cycle begins of weeding and growing because we never quite figure out how to pull them from the roots and rid ourselves from them forever. If someone’s words can do that to us, then our words can do that to others. That’s why it is so important to not speak words of anger and frustration easily because no matter how many apologies happen the seed is now planted and the weeds will grow.
The winter months can provide the perfect storm to fall into a cold self-reflection. Most of us take refuge indoors and the days are dark for longer. It makes it all too easy to tuck into a soft warm place like a bed and sleep for some a little too much and for others, it’s in an attempt to gain sleep that one can not seem to get during designated hours. One wonders if our ancestors also suffered from seasonal depression, but truthfully they didn’t have that luxury, they were busy surviving. They didn’t have as much downtime, strange we think of ourselves as busy and view their time as having been more simple and happier. It wasn’t simple though, it was hard and they too even without jobs as we have them now, worked too with little time to just exist. We love to romanticize the past and how much better we feel different would be. I would be willing to bet that many of your ancestors would trade off on the hard work you do today for the convenience that you have. The problem may be for us that we have now reached an oversaturation of convenience and distraction.
Confessions of a Haunting Freak 
There is an art to traversing the winter months that I haven’t found yet. Has something to do with getting that rest we need, but meeting the needs of our jobs and families at the same time.
As for convenience, as Leo says in Don’t Look Up, “We really did have it all didn’t we?” Prompted by a comment about having expensive coffee stocked in the house. I mean, people, we have coffee! Like how refined does it need to be?
I digest…
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Right? We so have it all in so many ways. That movie didn’t get great reviews, I enjoyed it, it was a blunt honest truth of how we live. We have coffee and chocolates from all over the world, worldly cuisines just down the streets.
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Mmm I might I pick up a worldly cuisine this evening:)
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Just think of how sad it would have been to go a whole life without tasting so many magical things
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When I’m in nature I often think to myself, “What would I eat…Here??🧐 In the Wild. Squirrels, dirty roots, maybe some bitter fruit. It would suck! The difference is incredible. What’s your favorite foreign cuisine / dish?
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Gosh, I love food lol I love trying new foods. I enjoy so many things, I love love love some good Japanese hibachi chicken makes me pretty happy 😂. There was an old teahouse in Port Gamble I loved so much the high tea was wonderful but those handmade truffles were to die for. Snow monkey plum tea, cranberry pecan scones, and spicy Mayan chocolate truffles, finger sandwiches, and fruit in three kinds of chocolate fondue
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Oh my god that sounds fantastic. You know, 🤔I can’t say I’ve ever tried Snow Monkey plum tea..but the name is to die far.
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It was over in Port Gamble, WA a new teahouse is there now. I also love the original Chung’s teriyaki over in Poulsbo. Yum yum yum lol
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I forgot you said you used to live in Washington. I’ve never been,m. That seems like a neat area. With some really good food and tea it sounds like.
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Starting is like prospecting for rare materials. You plan, You look around, but sooner or later you just gotta pick up the axe and start chipping away. Chip chip. A little at a time until you find your first Diamond. The fun begins!
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Quote courtesy of Yukon Cornelius 😉
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