Day Four: 8 things that make me happy about snow

[the_wanlorn]

1. The way a pine tree looks when its boughs are all weighted down with snow


2. Building snow forts in the dry, warm space underneath those boughs


3. The whisper snow makes as it's falling when you're in the middle of nowhere and everything is quiet.


4. The creaks and groans of trees after a snow


5. Coming inside and taking my hat and gloves and boots off by the woodstove


6. Sledding down our steep driveway


7. Turning around and seeing that the only marks on the snow in the entire woods are my footprints following me


8. When we get a foot or more. :D

We Who Are Your Closest Friends
by Phillip Lopate

We who are
your closest friends
feel the time
has come to tell you
that every Thursday
we have been meeting,
as a group,
to devise ways
to keep you
in perpetual uncertainty
frustration
discontent and
torture
by neither loving you
as much as you want
nor cutting you adrift.
Your analyst is
in on it,
plus your boyfriend
and your ex-husband;
and we have pledged
to disappoint you
as long as you need us.
In announcing our
association
we realize we have
placed in your hands
a possible antidote
against uncertainty
indeed against ourselves.
But since our Thursday nights
have brought us
to a community
of purpose
rare in itself
with you as
the natural center,
we feel hopeful you
will continue to make unreasonable
demands for affection
if not as a consequence
of your disastrous personality
then for the good of the collective.

Comments

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

When can I send Maddox for a visit?

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

If only! My dog loves snow and other dogs; he'd be ecstatic with a husky to play with. :P

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

Maddox would be ecstatic to see snow! Not that he doesn't know what he is missing, but...

I would love to have him enjoy it, just once.

[maddeinin.livejournal.com]

DYING OF JEALOUSY.

*just did her Christmas shopping in POURING RAIN*

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WELL NOW I'M PARANOID.

>:(

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

>:)

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[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

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[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

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[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

I'M BANNING YOU >:(

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i've ran out now.

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

>:)

[gaslightgallows]

Do you have any idea how impossible it is to enjoy snow when you live in the suburbs??? I want so badly to go and play but there's nowhere to play! There's a road in front of me and a parking lot behind. :((

Go throw some snowballs for me, plz.

Also: I want your woodstove.