Seattle softened and slowed over the holidays this year. It became an urban wonderland dampened and demured by an unusual abundance of snow. The lengthy hill next to my abode turned into a neighborhood cardboard-box & trashcan-lid luge ride where - depending on the time of day - the differing local cliques overran the hill: erudite university professionals and their families, pre-holiday break cheerful frat boys and girls, the Jewish Huskies from the Chabad house nearby. I think my neighborhood may have actually bordered on becoming a realio trulio "community" for a few pristinely snowbound days. (Amazing what happens when you can't drive away... and are forced to WALK places nearby to sustain yourself!)
I danced/slid/spun/walked all over the place on Christmas eve. Watching the world glow with manmade light... bumping into giant goofy snowmen... listening to off-the-wall Holiday music being played that eve on KEXP. I was so content with the mellowing flow produced by that white barrier of slow and sleepy Hydrogen and Oxygen. So hard to be a green grinch when all you see in Seattle is white white white.
Now, the holidays and snow have passed and it is time to dance/slide/spin/walk away into the New Year. The past two weeks have put a smile on my face. I must say... so far... so very very good.
I danced/slid/spun/walked all over the place on Christmas eve. Watching the world glow with manmade light... bumping into giant goofy snowmen... listening to off-the-wall Holiday music being played that eve on KEXP. I was so content with the mellowing flow produced by that white barrier of slow and sleepy Hydrogen and Oxygen. So hard to be a green grinch when all you see in Seattle is white white white.
Now, the holidays and snow have passed and it is time to dance/slide/spin/walk away into the New Year. The past two weeks have put a smile on my face. I must say... so far... so very very good.
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