are you kidding me?
i've been dreading winter this year in a bad way. I'm not sure why. I think last winter was hard on my soul. Winter (for me) is the time of year that you just hunker down and work and eat all the time and miss seeing that strange yellow ball in the sky that used to make things a lot prettier...and warmer.
winter is also a season of heavy workloads for a pastor. the obvious peaks of christmas and easter bring a lot of extra work (yes it's usually STILL winter here for most easters!) and with the short daylight hours i feel like i'm working my life away. Winter makes me feel like i'm regressing phylogenically (if i believed in evolution), my back gets more hunched over and i feel the urge to let my hair grow and to grunt rather than speak in articulate syllables.
but the part that might bother me most is the loss of human contact.
People don't go outside as much in the winter- for obvious reasons. I don't ever run in to my neighbors during winter. People aren't up for a quick parkinglot conversation when it's 20 degrees outside, that's pre-windchill. there are not the lasting voices of kids playing outside. and if they are out there, i can't hear them over the roar of my furnace and the sputtering of my humidifier... the plastic i put on my windows isn't helping either. Winter is accompanied by this dull mechanistic hum that sounds a lot like the sound scores of all those weird, "the earth is a wasteland because of nuclear war", futuristic movies.
yeah, so winter is not my friend, it seems to be the enemy of humanity, the henchman of isolation and loneliness.
So i was REALLY bummed out to see that yesterday, october 12, 2006, we already had our first snowfall...
adieu humanity, see you in may- hope we make it!
winter is also a season of heavy workloads for a pastor. the obvious peaks of christmas and easter bring a lot of extra work (yes it's usually STILL winter here for most easters!) and with the short daylight hours i feel like i'm working my life away. Winter makes me feel like i'm regressing phylogenically (if i believed in evolution), my back gets more hunched over and i feel the urge to let my hair grow and to grunt rather than speak in articulate syllables.
but the part that might bother me most is the loss of human contact.
People don't go outside as much in the winter- for obvious reasons. I don't ever run in to my neighbors during winter. People aren't up for a quick parkinglot conversation when it's 20 degrees outside, that's pre-windchill. there are not the lasting voices of kids playing outside. and if they are out there, i can't hear them over the roar of my furnace and the sputtering of my humidifier... the plastic i put on my windows isn't helping either. Winter is accompanied by this dull mechanistic hum that sounds a lot like the sound scores of all those weird, "the earth is a wasteland because of nuclear war", futuristic movies.
yeah, so winter is not my friend, it seems to be the enemy of humanity, the henchman of isolation and loneliness.
So i was REALLY bummed out to see that yesterday, october 12, 2006, we already had our first snowfall...
adieu humanity, see you in may- hope we make it!
posted by Dion @ 10/13/2006 06:48:00 AM
6 Comments
6 Comments:
When I was a kid winter was much more fun.
I keep wondering how I can amend my crotchety ways and find the fun in the cold again!
I love skating and playing hockey. Sledding and skiing are also great. The one caveaut is having the right equipment! :)
you calling me crotchety???
j/k I've wondered about that, if doing winter sports would be better. But it's $$ and lots of time it seems, there isn't the ease with which you can do stuff in the summer.
i guess there is no amending my ways :)
I always look forward to winter, actually. I think it is a time when you hunker down in the soul, but I think that can be good. It slows you down mentally. Slows you down (in a good way) spiritually.
Winter, for me, is a time of roaring fires in the fireplace. Family close by. Drinking hot cider. Slow cooker meals. Lots of candles around the house. Christmas with lights and music.
I actually can't wait...we'll have to show you our Christenson ways of winter this year. Maybe we can change your mind.
as much as i agree with you... i can't thank you enough for so brilliantly articulating all of the things i really didn't want to think about! denial is so much friendlier than the truth!!!
luckily.... the sun is back!!
-Jessie
oh Dion. Winter is a wonderful time of year! Scarves and cuddling, cold mornings not getting out of bed. The days with sunlight are more appreciated. untouched snow. SUNGLASSES, because of the whitedeath of glare from the random sunlight on saturday morning. Watching your beautiful daughter run around in the snow as a child! knowing she is enjoying herself! Gosh I could go on forever!!!! most of all. Christmas, work aside for you. The JOY <---that's a joke->> of giving, helping people, loving people around you. giving that special gift to someone to let them know how much you care. For me, days off work because there is WAAAAAAY TOOOO much snow.
ICE HOCKEY! hmm. cheer up. or I'll bring my cats to the next small group. :+)
thanks for the words of hope jason. it's not working though. i'm cold today and i don't like it :)
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