Embracing Winter

Winter is not my favorite season, I prefer spring and summer because I love being outdoors and even if
you ski and snowshoe as I do you can only do them for a few hours at best. That being said I no longer want to dread it and use it as a gift. A gift of time to order my life, read those books that accumulate, write the books that await the kind of time only winter provides. Winter curbs my errands and gives me more time at home. I catch up on movies that I won't see when the weather is pleasant and worthy of more rewarding experiences. I have learned how to play cribbage and how much I like to cross country ski, snow shoe and meet friends for a warm meal. Somehow winter gives me the gift of grit and integrity 70 and sunny does not. You never say, "I made it through summer.. you say "I survived winter and somehow that is something remarkable. I hope the integrity of this post isn't spoiled by the tickets I just purchased for California. I get out of this fricking icebox in 2 weeks!!!!!!!!