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| Land Line, 2009 |
Feels like a spring day today, am happy that Friday is tomorrow, a huge full moon arrives on Saturday, and Spring officially begins on Sunday. Thank goodness!
It's been a long winter with days featuring redundant weather. In the same moment, that shared Midwestern experience is draining, yet somehow comforting. As I was walking from the public parking lot near the Lake (a boat launch in more temperate months), I consider the positive aspects to wintry temperatures. One example is going to the grocery store without worrying about anything melting or spoiling during the trip home. Other perks include easy-to-wear wardrobes of sweaters and boots and a wealth of indoor events doing their very best to bring warmth and color into the gray days.
With spring, adventure moves outside. Yesterday, I basked in the sun very briefly in the enclosed patio of a pleasant Riverwest coffee shop. And, I look forward to muddy walks in the woods in my extremely effective Hunter boots.
There are still plenty of things to do inside, too. Tomorrow evening, I'll be at RAM, surrounded by the cheerful palette of Ruth Grotenrath and Schomer Lichtner's paintings for the show's reception and behind-the-scenes tour with Bruce W. Pepich. We learned just yesterday that the event was serendipitously scheduled for Lichtner's birthday! The date was chosen months ago via staff meetings and dependent partly on the schedule of some of the attendees. No mention of his birth date throughout the process, until the discovery yesterday. Talk about happy coincidence.
Today, I say, Happy St. Patrick's Day!
