January can be a bleak month. It’s winter. It’s cold. Trees are bare. Grass looks like it has forgotten the word green. We’ve had a few days of comparative warmth and sunshine but now, a polar vortex is aimed squarely at us and is barrelling this way. Blah.
Nemo and I are blessed with a warm house and plenty of food so we should be able to hibernate for several days, maybe a week or more. But, what do I do to keep the chill from creeping inside me–inside my thoughts? I’ve thought of a few ways that are peculiarly mine and I’ll bet you have a few of your own.
Meet the polar vortex with…
…the warm coffee pot beneath my hands on a cold, dark morning
…the blaze in the fireplace that offers warmth and cheer
…the comfort of my rice bag on my cold feet, heated to perfection in the microwave
…snuggling under an afghan and reading a good cozy mystery
…that first sip of fresh-brewed, hot Folgers each morning
…my family gathered around my mother’s hundred year old table for Sunday dinner.
As for Nemo, he’ll snooze, eat, snooze, and keep me company–his most important job.
Not that I welcome a polar vortex, but if it’s gonna come, those are some of the ways I choose to make it through until it has roared off to freeze some other place.
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