It’s less than three weeks, now, until the winter solstice arrives here in the Northern Hemisphere, and I feel like a bear that’s ready to hibernate. By early afternoon, as the sun is already well past midpoint in the sky, I start yawning. I just want to wrap myself in a cozy blanket and take a nap.
To help me face the cold weather that has already arrived, I’ve been loading up on more warm clothes, thanks to Black Friday sales. My new winter boots, with toasty ankle linings, just arrived Monday, and they feel great. So did a soft wool turtleneck dress, a pair of gloves with open fingers that can be covered with a mitten cap, and a supply of more loose teas. The last item, on its way, is a little rechargeable light I can clamp onto a book while reading in bed under my down quilt.
So, I guess I’m as ready as I can be. My good, long, down winter coat still fits, and I finally was able to unjam the zipper to get another season’s use out of it. A good thing, because anything comparable to what cost me only a couple of hundred dollars a decade or so ago would now cost three times that. I checked.
And so I write, in lined leggings, a sweatshirt dress, a shawl, and wrist warmers, on Monday afternoon, with the electric heat on. I’m still cold. I think I’ll wrap my legs in a blanket, too.
Evelyn Herwitz blogs weekly about living fully with chronic disease, the inside of baseballs, turtles and frogs, J.S. Bach, the meaning of life and whatever else she happens to be thinking about at livingwithscleroderma.com. Please view Privacy Policy here.
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