{"id":2222,"date":"2013-02-10T09:28:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T14:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2013-02-10T09:43:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T14:43:48","slug":"drifts-of-snow-angles-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=2222","title":{"rendered":"Drifts of Snow, Angles of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"snowbound\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The snow brought a lovely quiet and a rare state of ‘not-doing’ to my home.
\n<\/a>Life always seems a constant of ‘must-do’s’. You know, the endless lists: laundry, cook, clean, groceries, pay-bills, exercise squeezed in around a 40 hour job. Even things I enjoy \u00a0and some I love — have an element of ‘must’ to them – or at least a feeling of ‘should’ – \u00a0socialize, write, walk, even read. Do, do, do!
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But this weekend, blanketed by record snows, we were told by the authorities (!) to stay home. Stay home.<\/em> You must stay home! How sweet. Obediently, I didn’t budge. I did a few things from my enjoyable<\/em> ‘must’ list like reading and cooking and a little writing – but for a few hours of being home-bound, I did nothing. Except,\u00a0look<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Rob<\/a><\/p>\n

In winter, I get up to go to work in the dark. Dressing by the light of the closet so as not to disturb still sleeping R, I often choose colors or socks that are just a tad mismatched. By the time I lumber upstairs again at the end of the day to change out of work clothes, it’s dark again. I rarely see the light in my sweet bedroom. So on one of these frozen days, stuck at home by snow drifts and howling winds, I sat on my bed and watched the light and the views from my bedroom window.<\/p>\n

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I reveled in the sweet angles of golden warmth and shadows I rarely glimpse. Like a cat, I curled up in the slowly shifting patches of warmth and did not leave until the light was gone and the sky had faded to a chilly pink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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