Wind is a blowing out there. I'm going to do some exercise dvds later. I've become wimpy in my dotage! Winter storm didn't amount to much in town. The tiny amount of snow already melted but temps have stuck in the 30's.
Did a load of laundry - whee!
Spouse drove to Santa Fe to see The Day the Earth Stood Still with his work buddy. I gave him the Suburu in case he encountered ice or snow but road conditions are pretty good per a report from daughter. Daughter and family stayed in a bed and breakfast overnight in Madrid to see the Christmas lights.
Wow - Polar Dream by Helen Thayer is really good. Last night when I went to bed (at the ungodly hour of 1:30am - was still awake at 2pm and woke up at 9am), I imagined what it would be like to be in a tent with winds howling and snow piling up, threatening to collapse the tent. I don't think I've enjoyed for a long time a book like I do this one. I don't want it to end.
She does have a lot of philosophy about how to survive in the outdoors. The latest epiphany she had was that during the storm, the best way to deal with it was not to rail against it (like I do if I walk outside in a strong wind but was OK with the strong winds last night) but to accept it and not try to fight it. Not to say that you give up and die - she did have to go out in the middle of the night in the enormously strong winds and blowing snow to shovel snow off the tent so it wouldn't collapse.
There's a lot in that book that has application to ordinary, every day, indoor life. A lot of it she learned from her husky dog, Charlie, given to her by the Inuits. During the storm, she looked at Charlie who lay calmly sleeping, gathering his strength for when the storm abated and this quieted her anger at the storm that she couldn't control.
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