9am next day, 4 inches later. The only sound is the sleet pattering still on the trees and the house, the wind whips around the dusty snow on top, the snow that hasn't yet been flattened by the sleet....

not a peep from the birds, it is so cold. My iron heron hybrid watches curiously and eternally stoic but silent. My japanese maple sleeps through it all patiently.

maybe, maybe not

this is my yard. It is 9pm, they say this is the big one, the perfect storm. It will snow for 16 hours without ceasing. We will have 15-25 inches before it turns to sleet and ice...we shall see....

Right now, it is cold, flurries are constant and coming down fast. A nice thin blanket of snow is starting to cover the world, or at least my little corner of it.....

My Resolution, my Reality

Ok, it is one month into the new year. What is going to be different this time? No more pattern of the same statements: wishes spewed out as the old year passes away. Notions that I can't quite grasp, fleeting as the thoughts that pushed them forward. Or a noble idea I release to another years' universe like a sigh that escapes me and that means so much yet means nothing at all....

This is what will be different. I am shaking off this apathy, as it sits like a heavy, stinking coat that weighs much too heavy on my shoulders. I will free myself of last years' grief and goodbyes.

I will embrace 2010 close to me and smell its roses and gum drops, feel its sun rays and moon lights. Live each of its moments.

In the tears, and in the joy, in the sickness, and in the dance, in the exuberance and in the calm, in the whispers and in the shouts - I will extract the good and the precious.

And it will all be precious. Every day will be my pursuit of happiness......here, for the world to see.