snow day

today it snowed, long and fresh and much needed. covered the grey and the old, the boot trails and the dog scat, the melting and the rabbit and deer tracks. made my breath fuller. called me and timber out early and long and took us around creek and forest. we had a good time. i even remembered to look up some, look around, breathe. funny how that happens, isn't it--how we can walk and walk but really just be thinking, more. those moments when i look up and look around, that's when the forest, the layered dark mountains and the fog hold me. that's when we hold each other and i feel all the space in this sometimes seemingly tiny, dense kate.

grateful for tea with a friend. for body awareness and shared fascination with things like pelvic stability.

grateful for really simple dinners of grandma day slaw and sausages. and grateful that he agrees.

grateful for snow piled on glass hearts hanging from old cherry trees on the path.

grateful for favourite, warm clothes mended and once again wearable.

grateful for the flexible, understanding, human place i work. that it's okay to miss a meeting when it's been snowing all day.

at the same time that the snow calls me out and freshens, it calls me in. makes my house seem like the only place on earth. so quiet. so still. i love that about winter. that particular warmth that happens inside me when, outside, the world is patterned white falling endlessly. my brain shifts watching the continuous movement, like when i stare into fire. which i did some of today, too.

k.