#68

Not since I was anticipating the very first winter of my life at the age of five have I felt so favorably towards the snow and the short days as this year. I am glad every day for the cold and the sleet, the colder the fiercer, the fiercer the warmer. It has taken nineteen years of hard work and incremental gains, but I have at last relearned my child's devouring glee in the blustering snow and the whipping wind, in plunging through the dire season with a furnace in my heart.

Also very excited for Christmas this year! Really, just generally thankful for everything that's happening. Been seeing lots of hawks, it is glorious, staggering, blessed three times three times.

--JL