Making It...

One advantage to living in the Heartland of USA is that the weather is always changeable, and often extreme. We always have four seasons. Some seasons extend longer, or fall short, it all depends on the year, and, what with our accelerating climate catastrophe, the seasons are not always what they are cracked up to be. Sometimes it's super-hot, super cold, cloudy, humid, icy, snowy, rainy, etc. 

When pushed to the extremes, survival mode kicks in. It is a slimming down of what's important. For instance, yesterday, it was pretty damn cold over here.

So Life and it's Reasons and Goals, start shrinking. You devolve back to basics. What's important? Keeping your extremities from freezing. Also taking care with each step, lots of snow and ice to navigate. One step from catastrophe, that is the Ultimate Truth. The weather is bigger than us, tougher than us, it often challenges us.

So, yesterday, it was all about firing up, readying ourselves to meet the day. Thick hat, thick gloves, big, furry boots, layers of sweaters and a hoodie. Surviving the day. That was it. The purpose. It all sort of felt like a cleanse. A refresh of simplification. Of course, the pandemic is surging around us, but the frigid air seemed more real and relevant. But, you know, already 2022, the newest of  new years, already seems to have a theme: Make It. In One Piece.