Y'all make me smile. But it is a happy milestone today and even with the sunshine on the snow blinding me this morning, it's a good day. Shadows are usually gloomy things, but today's tree shadows are diagonal and blue and long, like grids across the back yard. I could almost play hopscotch from one end to another with the piles of snow making shorter shadows of their own.
Vic, thank you. I believe you have been right beside me through the entire year, even the teary moments when I thought I might not take another step, and Annie not far behind Vic.
Terri, you surely know how to enjoy a snowy day. I can smell the wood smoke from here. And Mike is enjoying it too. Nothing better than that. We are children again, each in our own special way.
Thanks Leon. That's exactly what convinced me to write the article. I had to take a deep breath before publishing it though. It could well be the hardest thing I ever had to write.
Y'all stay safe and warm through this wintery spell we've been given. The icicles forming along my roof line are long enough to feel like bars on a cage. I don't know whether I'm inside looking out or outside looking in, but they surely are pretty from either direction.