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Wednesday, April 4, 2007
7:41:00 PM EDT
Feeling Loopy
Hearing Jazz from KKJZ San Fran
Stardate 4-3-07
There’s snow on the window this April Tuesday. Wind-driven snow coats the screen as if to obscure any thoughts of Spring and rebirth of the land. I drive through pillow drifts slung across the roads like futile barriers erected by a season out of place. Check the calendar; write your government representative, someone’s kidnapped Spring. As a gust of wind obscures the road with a violent spray of snow I’m transported back to January or February. Funny how perspective affects attitude. Snow in November, October, even late September is not unexpected in the upper midwest… disappointing yes, but winter after all can stretch his hand into neighboring Autumn and Spring. Yet when winter intrudes upon Spring it is as if we have been betrayed by Spring’s unholy alliance with the sinister butt-in-ski… Winter. After working late last night to revise a quiz for Thursday I walked it over this morning to the duplicating building to insure it would get back in time. Wind driven snowflakes stung my face, the chill Spring air worked its way into my jacket and down along my neck. When I told the secretary I’d walked from the Education Building, a ten-minute walk along a quiet campus back-road, she’d acted as if I’d just returned from a trek to the North Pole. Yet despite the disappointment and inconvenience we know this too shall pass and a few days of April sunshine will melt the snows away. It’s like my current living situation, it’s frustrating, disconcerting, and lonely but I know this too shall pass. My love and I WILL be living together again and shall look back upon these days as a sad and lonely time we made it through.
Stardate 4-4-07
Morning finds me a bit dazed and confused... the sound of rushing wind greets me and there is a definite chill in the room. Outside snow is packed tight in the bottom of the windowpane as if someone has tried to stuff cotton into the nooks and corners of the sill. It's winter outside... isn't it? Bulging drifts are slung across the driveway and the trees quiver against the grey morning sky. Shivering as I change clothes I watch the goose-bumps march across my arms. Did I miss something here? Last night found me bleary eyed and exhausted, as if I'd been swimming through the day and every hour was like another wave to push through. Did I sleep through Spring and right past Summer? Have I slipped into a time warp and been dragged back into winter? I picture me being sucked into a vortex desperately clinging to a table leg or window ledge... it's a scene right out of Star Trek or Harry Potter. Checking the news the date is indeed Wednesday, April 4, 2007. Spring... it IS Spring... but Ol Man Winter must have forgotten something, had to come back... like we often do when going on a trip. "Oops forget the tickets" ... "Wait I forgot my performing hat"... "Did we put out the everlasting feeder?" Yuppers, winter must have forgotten tickets to the Sidney Opera, or left his favorite cuddle bear behind, or left the stove on... came back for something and decided to leave a little bit of snow and cold behind. Well 6-9 inches aint exactly a LITTLE BIT of snow is it?
Now in my office I can hear the driveway being plowed, the roar of the diesel engine, the metallic scraping of the front-end loader bucket, the warning beep-beep to keep unsuspecting drivers and pedestrians away (like anyone could miss the hulking, neon yellow beast scoping up hunks of snow). There's sunshine poking through the scattering clouds trying to establish some hope for spring and send a little warmth through the chill morning air. Yet a frigid essence remains, winds still toss bits of snow about, and the warm temperatures we remember from just a week ago will have to make a slow return... Just as I am trying to do here in J-Land and in life.
Until next time... Be well. Laugh Often. Play hard
- Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist invents the parachute.
... Gil Stern
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7:41:00 PM EDT
Feeling Loopy
Hearing Jazz from KKJZ San Fran
Spring Back Winter Ahead
There’s snow on the window this April Tuesday. Wind-driven snow coats the screen as if to obscure any thoughts of Spring and rebirth of the land. I drive through pillow drifts slung across the roads like futile barriers erected by a season out of place. Check the calendar; write your government representative, someone’s kidnapped Spring. As a gust of wind obscures the road with a violent spray of snow I’m transported back to January or February. Funny how perspective affects attitude. Snow in November, October, even late September is not unexpected in the upper midwest… disappointing yes, but winter after all can stretch his hand into neighboring Autumn and Spring. Yet when winter intrudes upon Spring it is as if we have been betrayed by Spring’s unholy alliance with the sinister butt-in-ski… Winter. After working late last night to revise a quiz for Thursday I walked it over this morning to the duplicating building to insure it would get back in time. Wind driven snowflakes stung my face, the chill Spring air worked its way into my jacket and down along my neck. When I told the secretary I’d walked from the Education Building, a ten-minute walk along a quiet campus back-road, she’d acted as if I’d just returned from a trek to the North Pole. Yet despite the disappointment and inconvenience we know this too shall pass and a few days of April sunshine will melt the snows away. It’s like my current living situation, it’s frustrating, disconcerting, and lonely but I know this too shall pass. My love and I WILL be living together again and shall look back upon these days as a sad and lonely time we made it through.
Stardate 4-4-07
Morning finds me a bit dazed and confused... the sound of rushing wind greets me and there is a definite chill in the room. Outside snow is packed tight in the bottom of the windowpane as if someone has tried to stuff cotton into the nooks and corners of the sill. It's winter outside... isn't it? Bulging drifts are slung across the driveway and the trees quiver against the grey morning sky. Shivering as I change clothes I watch the goose-bumps march across my arms. Did I miss something here? Last night found me bleary eyed and exhausted, as if I'd been swimming through the day and every hour was like another wave to push through. Did I sleep through Spring and right past Summer? Have I slipped into a time warp and been dragged back into winter? I picture me being sucked into a vortex desperately clinging to a table leg or window ledge... it's a scene right out of Star Trek or Harry Potter. Checking the news the date is indeed Wednesday, April 4, 2007. Spring... it IS Spring... but Ol Man Winter must have forgotten something, had to come back... like we often do when going on a trip. "Oops forget the tickets" ... "Wait I forgot my performing hat"... "Did we put out the everlasting feeder?" Yuppers, winter must have forgotten tickets to the Sidney Opera, or left his favorite cuddle bear behind, or left the stove on... came back for something and decided to leave a little bit of snow and cold behind. Well 6-9 inches aint exactly a LITTLE BIT of snow is it?
Now in my office I can hear the driveway being plowed, the roar of the diesel engine, the metallic scraping of the front-end loader bucket, the warning beep-beep to keep unsuspecting drivers and pedestrians away (like anyone could miss the hulking, neon yellow beast scoping up hunks of snow). There's sunshine poking through the scattering clouds trying to establish some hope for spring and send a little warmth through the chill morning air. Yet a frigid essence remains, winds still toss bits of snow about, and the warm temperatures we remember from just a week ago will have to make a slow return... Just as I am trying to do here in J-Land and in life.
Until next time... Be well. Laugh Often. Play hard
- Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist invents the parachute.
... Gil Stern
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Yeah, winter in the upper midwest does get rather LONG, doesn't it. Personally, I like having snow for Christmas. Having it for Easter though? That just sucks.
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I arrived to take a peek, via Dawn's journal link -- and stayed, entranced and riveted by the fine read. I love words that not only convey meaning, but also delight the reader; yours do.
I am praying for your beloved wife. I know the wounds of the heart that come when I believe I've failed somehow as a mom because a child makes destructive choices. Those wounds run deep and are hard to heal.
I am also praying for your son to continue learning valuable lessons and that you will be enabled to do th work and get that PhD.
Thank you,
karyl
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So you have returned! Thank the good Lord for that!! Was begining to think you were lost to us forever! I hope your last entry is put into the college paper(they must have one!) Our grandson will be going to college at Valley City--are you near there? Soooo glad to have you back, Michael! Barb
6/9/07 10:52 AM
Being how it is now June.. I'm hoping this wintry entry is well warmed up by now! Looking forward to reading your next entry... hopefully, I won't be so late...
Also hoping things for your family have settled down into a nice boring stretch for a while... and that your lovely wife and son have rejoined you on your walk in life.
Good to see you here, anyway :)
Cat