Friday, March 25, 2011

As Winter Slips into its Annual Coma..

and prepares to hibernate for "Summer"
...it always,
BUT ALWAYS,
gives us ONE MORE REALLY COLD spell...
a SHOCK to our senses....
for it follows...
EVERY SINGLE TIME, mind you...
an unusually early, warm, Spring appearance....
I think it's God's way of reminding us NOT to be too CAVALIER...
about ANYTHING....
not to be SMUG about what we KNOW to be TRUE...
for truth is fungible and malleable...
it has different faces....different smells.....
NOTHING, BUT NOTHING, is written in stone....
Nature, as with everything else,
is FLAWED...
It is PERFECT in its IMPERFECTION....
The sun is shining....
So...
we, naturally, determine that it's WARM outside...
but nine times out of ten....IT'S FREEZING...
and we ARE UNDER-WHELMINGLY DRESSED !
ridiculously so....
On the flip side,
 following a COLD day,
we ASSUME that we need to wear HEAVY GEAR...
Seriously....
How many times have you been literally ROASTING in the humidity with too much clothing on ??
I don't know WHY I'm writing this utterly BORING BLOG POST !!!
LOLOL
Shabbat Shalom.......

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