It is almost Valentine’s Day and I am still trying to clean up from Christmas, figuratively speaking. I forgot to bring cash to our Christmas trip with my siblings (sorry Santa) and so inevitably I owed various of them money by the end of the trip: – My brother because he picked up alcohol for …
Month: February 2013
Killing Silence
Sometimes I need the crunch of snow underfoot. Sometimes I need to experience the low-slung shadow cast by my figure in the late afternoon winter sun, or the thick gray sparkle of an icicle-covered rock. Snow brings that pause. That inevitable sheet of quiet, muffling all the regular sounds (even if it is fleeting, before …