Is it SPRING yet?
MARCH 4 and minus 20.
Yes, I am back in Winnipeg. I was thinking this morning that March last year, I was wearing my flip flops already. Kansas City weather may not have called for it, but as a Manitoban, it was warm enough! Today, just leaving the house makes me sad.
I'm sick of my jacket, I've been wearing it everyday since November. My toque (hat for you Americans) is actually fraying! My mitts are leather, but are beginning to look worn out, and my boots have seen better days. I'm not complaining... okay... yes, I am. But I am longing for warmer days!
The snow in my front yard and back yard, well... is still knee deep. My heating bills are well... obscene. I'm feeling the stir craziness of March in sub zero weather.
And then I go to work and it stops being about me, and it becomes about these women and men who have survived the worst of Winnipeg's weather while being homeless. They are happy to have a coat, they would love to have a heating bill, and the stir crazy idea is the opposite, they would love to have a place to call home.
It's all a matter of perspective.
Yes, I am back in Winnipeg. I was thinking this morning that March last year, I was wearing my flip flops already. Kansas City weather may not have called for it, but as a Manitoban, it was warm enough! Today, just leaving the house makes me sad.
I'm sick of my jacket, I've been wearing it everyday since November. My toque (hat for you Americans) is actually fraying! My mitts are leather, but are beginning to look worn out, and my boots have seen better days. I'm not complaining... okay... yes, I am. But I am longing for warmer days!
The snow in my front yard and back yard, well... is still knee deep. My heating bills are well... obscene. I'm feeling the stir craziness of March in sub zero weather.
And then I go to work and it stops being about me, and it becomes about these women and men who have survived the worst of Winnipeg's weather while being homeless. They are happy to have a coat, they would love to have a heating bill, and the stir crazy idea is the opposite, they would love to have a place to call home.
It's all a matter of perspective.
2 Comments:
the snow in my back yard goes about a foot taller than my HEAD! crazy, heh?
it's not even warm here...i'm wearing my slippers in the house! the weekend was nice however...
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