Winter Blues

Midwinter signals the winter blues.

Feeling down? Kind of listless?

PERK UP!

We are in the middle of a good old fashioned midwestern midwinter.

It starts as a long cold, penetrating season.

Most days are grey, some brighter some leaden.

Snow has come and gone, but it lingers because of the lower temps.

The deep freeze of single digits and wind chills is pretty much gone.

But (that olinging short word meaning some condition, good or bad), there is that penetrating cold, wet and relentless, like a steady walk in refrigerator.

Snow probably won't amount to much now.

I could be wrong, but judging by most past winters, we are in for dreary, laid out days filled with mediocrity.

That is the worst,

No crisis, no storm, no event big enough to mark our time.

Except, day by day, dull damp, cold.

Not even the miscreants of the neighborhood have stirred.

We are socked in by boredom. And now the remote for the vcr is malfunctioning.

Argh!

Luckily we can read and write.

The trick is to occupy/use your time.

There is a lot to learn about what's happening and what to do for the future.

Say a big NO to the blues and do, be.

The house we shared is almost 200 years old.

Imagine what the first residents did at this time of year.

No internet, tv, movies.

They had minds and chores and saw things through.

May we do the same.