The temps have gone up to 0 degrees today! Even though it has snowed several times during the past week, curling up in front of a blazing fire with a good book and some mulled Green Tea will be sheer bliss. More snow is on the way, but I don't have to stress about getting an early start for work in the morning because I am off until the New Year. I have Maya Angelou's Letter To My Daughter on the top of my book stack and will soon hunker down and "savor her words of wisdom and inspiration." Her eloquence never cease to lift my spirit and feed that inner chamber of my soul.
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I miss being a child in Md when it snowed. Oh the days when it would snow 3 inches or more in Carroll County which would cause great panic within the school system to close it all down due to the immanent danger of icy roads. This would set a chain reaction of phone calls across town trying to find out how we would spend our day doing activities that would get us in trouble for weeks at a time if we were caught.
Yet Chicago is different. While as a junior at Wheeling High I ask the guidance counselor on snowy afternoon, “How much snow needs to fall before they close schools around here?” Mr. Scarpino then said, “Why in the world would we ever do that?” I then looked outside the windows to watch the tiny flakes fall on top of the already 2.5 feet laying on the ground already and said,” Well what would happen if one of the busses crashed on it’s way to school. With a shrug and a smile he simply said, “Less of kids to deal with!”
Winter time is always a good season to read a Stephen King novel. Since most of his works are written while at his home in Maine, it gives you a feel for the level of gloom he always perceives in his books. One of my favorites is Dream Catcher which is set in the snowy North Eastern Mountains. Trust me when I say that you will think twice about venturing too far in snow filled forest after reading this book.
Bigg Sean
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