A period of readjustment?

As this is being written, we're debating with ourselves whether to set some personal goals for the year or play each day, month and season opportunistically. We already know we want to learn to cook beans this year, but which beans and what recipes and when to do so, not so much. We're in serious doubt if we can work up much enthusiasm for a three hour drive, one way, to do some Winter trout fishing, but you never know. Our artisan sourdough bread baking has plateaued, and we're not sure which way we want to head next.

artisan sourdough bread with kernza flour

Photo by J. Harrington

All in all, we're coming up short on enthusiasm and ambition. It could be the Winter Blues or the January blahs plus the typical post-holiday let-down. We're sure we will get the taxes materials organized this month, with a few places set as holders for the papers that won't arrive until late January or early February. We know we need to either sell some books or acquire more bookcases (or both). The place is beginning to resemble the old Norwegian bachelor's kitchen with stacks of books instead of stacks of newspapers with paths to other rooms between the stacks.

But first we need to see what this month actually brings as we proceed through the change from a criminal regime (pardon our pun) to a new administration with experience at governance. We suspect it will take some adjustment to reacquaint ourselves with government by "due process" instead of by Tweet and telephone threats. Perhaps we just settled the debate. The first quarter of the year our goal will be to get organized enough so that we can enjoy the other three quarters more than we have for several years, since about 2016.

Winter Love

By Linda Gregg

I would like to decorate this silence,   

but my house grows only cleaner

and more plain. The glass chimes I hung   

over the register ring a little

when the heat goes on.

I waited too long to drink my tea.   

It was not hot. It was only warm.

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