“Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.”
– Anne Morrough Lindbergh
They say we had somewhere between 19-23 inches of snow. All I know is that it is passed my dogs shoulders and comes up to my knees. Snowdrifts press against the window panes filling in the outlines of the houses I had carefully drawn there. When you step outside you do not touch the ground and everything tilts slightly, it is otherworldly. There is a pile of snow and ice taller than me by several feet and there are coyotes scampering through the streets when no one is looking. Whispers of a bear moaning at the hospital. An owls haunting hoot hoot echoes off the frozen landscape. It is rare to have such snowfall here and it shifts your view of the world.
For the most part I have stayed inside, working on my project to create a bullet journal entirely in Anglo-Saxon Futhorc. I think by March I will have achieved it. Zephyr keeps herself busy with blazing snowy trails. It is hard work pushing through snow up to your shoulders but she loves it and leaves me having to brush snow off her soaked sweaters multiple times a day. Then she romps up the stairs to sleep while staring out the window at the frozen landscape. Every day is slowly experienced like it should be. I will be like the bear a little longer, dreaming new worlds and dissolving old stories before the coming spring. …
Links:
- Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today
- trust the path the river must take
- The Joys and Perils of Keeping a Latin Diary
- Runic Calendar
- Why we should go back to writing in runes
- Follow the White Whale in Your Dreams
Reads:
- ‘Ways of Being’ James Bridle
- ‘The Author of the Acacia Seeds. And Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics’ Ursula K. Le Guin
- ‘Thinking Ecologically: A Dialectical Approach’ Murray Bookchin
- ‘Renewing The Earth’ John Clark
