Waiting it Out

Posted on March 17, 2007
Filed Under River Notes |

Dear diary: It started snowing yesterday afternoon & has kept snowing steadily for the last twenty-four hours. About a foot so far. Most of the snow we’d had in February had melted last week, just leaving some crusts in shadows & hollows, but we are definitely back to winter conditions. In the north country March comes in like a lion & leaves like a lion. I pretty much blew today off, I’m ashamed to say. It’s not like I don’t have any work to do; it’s just that the weather slammed the lid down on my energy & ambition. Read the news, surfed the web, installed a Wordpress plugin to deal with the mountains of spam that suddenly started hitting the site, watched golf on TV.  In a few minutes I’m going to go down to the kitchen & make some chicken burritos & that will be the most focused & creative thing I’ve done all day. So I’m waiting out the snow, waiting out winter.

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5 Responses to “Waiting it Out”

  1. Sam on March 17th, 2007 10:07 pm

    I left Guangzhou, PRC about 24 hours ago. My trajectory was Guangzhou-Tokyo-San Francisco-New Jersey.

    Well, that little storm put the kaibosh on that plan.

    So, I get to enjoy beautiful San Francisco until Monday.

    I’m going to see me some big trees tomorrow!

    I might be gloating, a little. :-)

  2. jd on March 18th, 2007 6:56 am

    Sam, you lucky stiff! Enjoy.

  3. Peter on March 18th, 2007 4:35 pm

    Forgive me if your comments sometimes provoke or echo some co-occurring event of mine.

    RITE

    To spring I sacrificed
    a salamander slicing
    open its rosy throat its
    pale contents merely by
    dragging a heavy pot
    of agaves into a better
    light there we were
    caught where it had
    hidden underneath against
    the bricks still writhing
    and me still writhing and
    spring calm now and bright.

  4. jd on March 18th, 2007 7:40 pm

    Oh, Peter, that’s a wonderful (& terrible–as in terror–) poem. You’re always welcome to use my posts to such a purpose.

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