Everyone is skipping today, it seems. It's 60 degrees outside and my window's open. I just wrote a poem about the snowflakes falling not two days ago, and now the sun is shining and the mud is thawing and people are skipping. They're not thinking about the fact that tomorrow it's supposed to be 34 degrees or that it's only January 23rd and we have many more months of winter to go through. But it's okay. Because right now it's spring. I wonder if all of a sudden a bunch of random people will decide to start dating, and then tomorrow they'll break up because the wintry clouds of dissension will rip apart their love affair. Dun, dun, dun!
Why do people have to be mean? Why do they have to say mean things? Here's my challenge for you (and me) this day: Consider other peoples' hearts before you speak. What might not hurt you might hurt them. Even something so little and flippant can be taken to heart if the heart is sensitive. Not everybody needs to hear what you think. Sometimes "being kind" is not saying anything at all. And rewinding your video tapes before returning them to your local library or video store.
I wish I had more time and the means to bake new recipes and knit new patterns and read new (to me) novels. Contrary to popular belief, The Habsburg Monarchy is not interesting. At all. I look forward to the day when I marry someone rich and he faithfully supports me while I cook him meals and knit him socks and dedicate my books to him. Unless he is poor, in which case I will most likely be working in a laundry room for the rest of my life because I already know how to fold fitted sheets. Really well.
Somehow this weather is making me very pessimistic. Maybe 'cause I know it's just kidding. And I don't like to be kidded. (If I had a scowl and a gun I would pull them out right now and look intimidating. Instead all I have is some pink yarn and a class at 3...so I should probably go.)
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1. I loved this part: "supports me while I cook him meals and knit him socks and dedicate my books to him." It was cute, the way you would do your part by dedicating books to him. I look forward to when that describes your life.
ReplyDelete2. I laughed at the "be kind/rewind" reference.
3. I should have read your blog post before hanging out with my friends, because I definitely teased them in a way that could have been hurtful. I can think of one comment in particular that I feel convicted about, now that I read your post. (And I really have no excuse, because you were talking to me about this on the phone just before I left to hang out with them.)
4. Springtime does bring romance. Will you marry me?
5. Which knitting patterns are you trying to learn? I'm telling ya, the cable twist is a hoot.
6. Please write back.
Maybe you should get a gun... but not to look intimidating unless someone trying to do you harm needs to be indimidated... then by all means, intimidate! Just a thought. BTW, I got here by way of your comments on Wist's blog.
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