Have I mentioned that I LOVE dandelion greens? I have been absolutely addicted to them since starting to eat them about a month ago. Besides being little health-bombs, they are absolutely delicious, too! Love ‘em, love ‘em, love ‘em!

Today I gave the kids a snowday.  It all started with a late night, listening to Tchaikovsky on the radio. Swan Lake and yes, it was the dying swan, Odette ~ heartbroken. Echos from long ago. I have been thinking about the passage of time lately. A lot. Good and Bad. Well, I guess it all has to be fundamentally good ( small “g”), right? But scary, too. I mean, how did it go so fast? Where did it go? Missing and realizing that which will never be again. At least not in any way I can comprehend at this point. Can’t wrap my struggling mind around concepts of eternity. Yet. The present is so intense. Nostalgia and Sadness, but Gratefulness, too. Such precious time with the little ones who are less little everyday. Even Markus, asleep with his silk sword from Santa clutched between both of his wonderful hands. He has always had the most wonderful hands… even Markus is less little day by day. Kibo is 10. That’s half way to…. and these next 10… and then what, and if only, and what if, only… What?

And then a day like today. A snowday with P.J.s and cheering and Fang den Hut and a first game of Monopoly (which, like Tchaikovsky takes me back to McGiffert Hall.) But peace here, now. Big Books in the Big Bed and Chapter 1 of The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe. McGiffert again, small tiles… can feel the fur on my face, the cold night air ~ sensory  memories from a first reading some 30 years ago. Cool air now, too, as it pours in… a bit of fresh air and Oxygen in our own snowglobe.

Perfect, and just the way it should be. Present.

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