Take What I Can Get
All winter long I've been thinking about moving. Someplace warmer, someplace different. I've moved a lot through my life and every couple of years I always feel a little worm of desire twisting inside of me for some new place to see.
Obviously, or maybe not so obviously, I can't move. I've got family here, a girlfriend that I love and don't want to be apart from. I've got ties. But that doesn't mean that I don't strain against them sometimes, feeling the bite of the cord, and wriggle just a little bit toward a new place.
Then days like today come along. Clear sunlight shining down on warm earth, snow melting off and sluicing away. No gloves, no jacket needed. I could feel the wind on my face and I didn't shiver or hustle over to some cover to duck behind.
I've been depressed a bit lately. Not terribly so, but depressed. And today... today put a damn smile on my face. Even at work, tucked away from the outside world, just knowing that it was warm and sunny and breezy outside made the day bearable. And that's what I needed. It should be enough to get me through a couple more weeks until my favourite season starts to show up.
Obviously, or maybe not so obviously, I can't move. I've got family here, a girlfriend that I love and don't want to be apart from. I've got ties. But that doesn't mean that I don't strain against them sometimes, feeling the bite of the cord, and wriggle just a little bit toward a new place.
Then days like today come along. Clear sunlight shining down on warm earth, snow melting off and sluicing away. No gloves, no jacket needed. I could feel the wind on my face and I didn't shiver or hustle over to some cover to duck behind.
I've been depressed a bit lately. Not terribly so, but depressed. And today... today put a damn smile on my face. Even at work, tucked away from the outside world, just knowing that it was warm and sunny and breezy outside made the day bearable. And that's what I needed. It should be enough to get me through a couple more weeks until my favourite season starts to show up.