Friday<\/p>\n
3rd cup<\/a>. coffee.\u00a0 <\/span>Going out with Mocha I did my best to say yes to everything.\u00a0 <\/span>Yes to cold, to wind, to frozen snow and dirty ice, to the call of a cardinal, to failure to see the cardinal, to tiredness…\u00a0 <\/span>It was all basically OK.\u00a0 <\/span>I wasn\u2019t happy, but I wasn\u2019t deeply unhappy.\u00a0 <\/span>In fact maybe it was equanimity.<\/p>\n Saturday<\/p>\n 3rd cup. coffee.\u00a0 <\/span>Walked Mocha out in the bitter cold.\u00a0 <\/span>9\u00b0 and no wind thank goodness.\u00a0 <\/span>Everything is frozen and dry, even the bits of ground that show at the edges is hard packed dusty brown with dead grass smashed flat.\u00a0 <\/span>Everything seems dusty.\u00a0 <\/span>Bleared sun.\u00a0 <\/span>Matches my mood exactly now that I\u2019ve given up the sense that I \u201cshould\u201d find some meaningless entertainment on the Internet.\u00a0 <\/span>Though the sun is getting higher and the days are getting longer, I can\u2019t believe that spring will ever come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Friday 3rd cup. coffee.\u00a0 Going out with Mocha I did my best to say yes to everything.\u00a0 Yes to cold, to wind, to frozen snow and dirty ice, to the call of a cardinal, to failure to see the cardinal, … Continue reading