Into the Winter of Discontent
Yesterday around 4:30, I was thinking how much it sucks that it gets dark early now, long before it's time to leave work, when a colleague expressed basically the same thought to me. We were both walking to a meeting together, and the person we met said the same thing.
Later that evening, I was leaving work and out on the sidewalk I overheard one person say the same thing to another.
And on an S9 headed uptown, with rain streaked windows turning the streetlights outside into blurry stars, the people in front of me were having the same conversation.
It seemed like the reality and weight of the cold, dark months ahead had hit the whole city, all at the same time.
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I've been saying it, too. Bleah.
. . .sigh . . . we're all in the same boat this time of year. I'm already counting the days until December 21st, the shortest day of the year AND the beginning of a reversal of the dark phase. I have to have all the lights on this time of year!
But then I remembered that my niece is living in Alaska and the dark never ends during winter!! I can't even contemplate living under such conditions!
Misery may not love company, but it NEEDS company, right?
For the record, I ought to know that the day of that bleak post, which I wrote early in the morning, turned out to be beautiful!
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