Re: Good Morning
- From: "Sanity" <sanity-clause@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 20 Jan 2006 18:11:55 -0800
Dia wrote:
> Hello everyone, I have an analogy to share.
> See if you can firggure out what it is an analogy for.
> It is a beautiful, frosty, very cold winter day here in the sierra
> foothills.
> My little wood stove does not hold enough wood to burn all night...
> It is cold in this house when I wake up.
> Oh, and it turns out that it condensates in several places...
> I need to take a towel to window sills and walls.
> I has rained for weeks but now it is about to snow.
> Life is ok.
> It's cold though.
> I have to start a fire first thing - it is something one must learn to
> do, fire requires certain things to get going. I can't just
> haphazardly toss a bunch of wood into the stove, throw in a match and
> have fire. I have to understand what fire needs from me, so I can get
> what I need from fire. If I do not approach firemaking with
> thoughtfulness and respect, fire will not come to me nor will it stay
> with me. I need fire, I need warmth, so I learned to work with fire,
> and I am very good at it now. We have a mutually beneficial
> relationship.
> Cold is one of those things I don't mind much, as long as I have a way
> to get warm. 'Course, this way of getting warm takes a while. I start
> by putting on more warmies, socks, sweater, sometimes a coat as
> well...and I wait about 2 hours for the little fire to warm things up
> enough to take off the coat. I wonder if there is a better way? (no
> central heat here)
> Buying a bigger stove would be one better way I guess.
> Brrr...
> I hope everyone else is staying warm out there.
> I am grateful I have a house and a stove and wood to burn.
> But even though those things do not promise me warmth without my own
> work to keep warm.
> I could become disillusioned about the whole idea of getting a house of
> my own and being self sufficient and making a place for myself that
> fits into long held dreams, it is so much work to be warm these
> days...not like the long laughing, pleasant days of summer, when
> everything was easy. It isn't like it was when I came here at first.
> Back then, there was plenty, now there is much less.
> It is winter, the season of scarcity.
> I would be foolish to curse the seasons, for they cycle on, whether I
> respect their purpose or lament their natures. Whether I understand or
> despise, the seasons each have their unique ways to which I must adapt
> or suffer the consequences.
> Cold? Build a fire. Wood wet...dry it by the fire...dry lots, prepare
> for later. Wear a coat in the house.
> Icy roads, be ready to stay home for a while. Do lots of provisioning,
> have a well stocked larder. Too bad the berry season was so poor this
> year...we could not put up any jam this year. Still have lots of
> tomatoes and salsa canned up from the summer garden. If the power goes
> out, we can keep refridgerated items outside...
> There is a way to be here, in this now cold and isolated place, and
> keep my optimism about the future. I sure don't blame anyone else for
> what the weather is like. I sure do not want to spend my winter days
> unhappy because it is winter, though it brings harsh conditions with
> it. I am cold, but I am relatively content.
> I brought that nature with me into the cold. Relative contentment.
> It is my perspective, how I look at it all, that makes the difference
> between misery and peace of mind.
> And even though I am cold, here in this house, I know it is me who
> warms the house, not the house that warms me.
>
> Blessings,
>
> Dia
Reading that was a blessing.
Thank you,
Sanity
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