And yet, tonight I drove in the snow. By the time I got home from work, the leaves were like small party favours filled with Italian Ice. Now, just a half hour later, the ground is covered. I'd post a picture, but I can't bring myself to even document this sad event.
By morning, nearly an inch of snow will cover the leaves on my lawn, and the trees, many still green amidst the orange and yellow, will be hanging low under the burden of white slush.
As I said, it's been a rough year, weather-wise. But dammit, I won't let it get me down. Yes, I still live in New England due to a long tragedy of errors starting with the loss of my job and subsequent (but likely unrelated) crash of the real estate market last Spring, but I have a job that I love and a bunch of great friends here. And I have an even better friend who lives down in warmer climates, who I will be visiting next week and enjoying hedonistic and alcoholic pleasures with down in the Florida Keys.
Who knows what the future brings? The possibilities are quite endless, the future is wide open, I alone control my destiny, and what has been a long, strange, and mostly wonderful trip so far is not likely even close to over.
In other news, my Tivo for some reason switched my TV while I was at work to the local Christian channel today to record something (God knows why it thought I'd be interested), so when I turned on the TV tonight to see what's up, I was greeted with some dude preaching about how lost we are in the world.
I don't feel lost. I feel like I am found. And that's a really nice place to be, despite the weather...
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