I worry about people who pin their emotions to weather patterns.
Weather can impact our feelings, but we’re asking for trouble if we let it drive our emotions and outlook to the extreme.
What else is askew if the rain, snow, or sun dictates our mood?
More on this tomorrow…
“The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are always turning over rocks, jumping with two feet into mud puddles and playing with the tablecloth and fine china.”—Neil deGrasse Tyson Our children spill from the elementary in T-shirts indifferent to the rain…
In the forest it sounds like it’s raining long after a heavy storm has passed. Millions of droplets make their way leaf to leaf toward earth through a thick canopy. No more rain falls from still pregnant clouds overhead and the puddles in the open are glass. Yet just yards away I hear a rain…
It’s like returning to your childhood home to find a shopping mall where you expected the little league field. Ski slopes should have snow on them in February, at least in the northern hemisphere. At least on Earth. I learned to ski at Meadows when I was 12. Sometimes you ski powder and sometimes you…
Elation. We should all be so lucky to live with this much joy in our lives. If even a moment of each day could contain this much unbridled, rapturous energy… What a way to live! This video has been bouncing around the internet for a while, but every time I watch it I’m renewed in…
Sometimes you have to pull the plug. Tonight has been a good night writing away on some fiction after Jake-meister went to bed. Until tiredness set in. Then things like this happened: It didn’t just start right away. Yawns came on first, followed by slow thinking like sailing across molasses. Then my eyelids fluttered shut…
He seems too big to be my baby boy, yet still so small for someone who will one day be a man as big as I. Little hands fill tiny mittens. Growing feet squeeze into small blue boots. My hat. His gone missing in the rush to get out into the snow. His sister watches…
