I came back to the old haunt to remind myself of a blog entry, and ended up getting WordPress nostalgia.
Did you know it snowed today in Halifax? It snowed for the first time. I woke up at 3 and let the dogs out. It was cold outside, but still bare. I started working on my computer, and tuned the world out for a few hours. At 7:30, when I next looked out the window… well, you know what had happened. I had to wake Paul up to tell him. I tried to pretend something shocking was going on in the street outside our window, but he saw right through my ruse. Maybe he smelt the snow, or the chill, or the moist frisson of the morning.
He tried to go back to sleep, but I had already made his brain start working, so he had to get up. We put Gordon into his cute new coat, and released the crew into their first snowy landscape. The shared delight lasted a split second, then they were right back to their regular routine of frantic competition.
I just finished a big essay for my History class. Now, I have a few other big things to work on. But not so big as this big thing that just got finished. A couple of short stories and work stuff. It’s winter now. Everything has to move slower, skim the cold surface of the ground, stay clear of the low ceiling of the hard sky. Everything that happens from here on is less, because it is sandwiched between unwelcoming frontiers. Everyone creeps around, hoping not to slip on the ground, or disturb the sky and accidentally shake out more snow. I’m going to creep home now, and hibernate for a while.
