The Way Young Lovers Do

We've had the heavy white stuff here. I was so intent on walking to the public market this morning, but with the wind chill it was about a whopping 17 degrees, so I split the difference and parked at Village Gate and walked the second half of it. It was such a beautifully bright sunny morning that I almost didn't notice I couldn't really feel my fingertips. A brisk one to be sure! Didn't stop me from perusing every booth and buying some red onions and ginger root, which I promptly made some tea with upon returning home.

I love days like this. When you know that spring is teetering on the brink of center stage, but winter has to make just one last appearance, so they compromise, and the result is blue skies and sunshine, bitter cold winds, and dahlias poking their noses out in overgrown flowerbeds while branches arch toward earth, heavy with precipitation.

I most recently saw Into the Wild and, since reading the book while backpacking, would have to say the director did a phenomenal job at sticking to the story. Most movies rarely do justice to their source, but this one did. In a remarkable, gut-wrenching, inspiring, horrific way. I had to re-read the book again immediately after watching the movie to be sure. And yes. It's there. Beautiful and powerful and moving. Something about that story just gets me at the core. Sure, there's lots of controversy over the story - particularly about Chris - but you either "get it" or you don't. I'm sure you can figure out which camp I'm in. And if you have no idea what I'm talking about, then I'm sure you could figure it out anyway, just by knowing me.

Well, Van Morrison's vocals "dreamed of the way we were and the way that we wanted to be" are belting through my speakers, drowning out the party upstairs, and I am reminded that another day is on its way out. I am reluctant to let go of it. Wanting to squeeze every last drop from it that I can. But time comes when one must just accept enough is enough and succumb to sleep and the prospect of a new day.

I hope there are more like this one to come...