Winter Weather

Weather! We live in it. We work in it. We sometimes play in it. Weather occupies my brain a good portion of the time. My brain operates it's own weather station. The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is to look outside to see the weather. The funny thing is that my brain weather station is ever on the all blue sky, bright sun, green leafed station. Well that is until I have to look outside to verify it.
This morning before I completed my first yawn, I opened the blinds to find the stark reality of winter in Calgary. For one week it has been wintry. Snow, blizzard, icy fog, blinding white. As I look out my 11th floor condo, I see white fog in the distance. What is beyond the white fog? I guess more of the same- white nothing. Cars are creeping and people are running. I close the blinds
I recall all those disgusting drives into work in this god awful weather. I wished I was retired. I wish I had the day off. I wished i could stay home. I am rretired. I do not have to go out in this weather unless I want to.
However I am going out and I am not driving. I am letting public transport do the driving for me today. The snow can fall. The roads can be icy. I will sit back on the C-train and bus and turn on my blue sky, bright sun, green leafed station. I ride out the winter like every other prairie girl has done forever.
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