I feel so restless I could bite someone. Winter is stretching far past its ‘use by’ date and with every passing day the longing for spring grows greater, the belief that it will never come stronger.
I feel like I am in exile.
Banished to the land of “Forever Winter”. Lost in the White Witch’s spell of “Always winter and never Christmas”. The video above, created by a friend, completely captures how I feel.
I do everything I know to do to cope with this restlessness:
- I work
- I exercise
- I read
- I write
- I bake bread, muffins, cookies
- I play games
- I watch Brooklyn Nine Nine, Downton Abbey, Sherlock, Nashville, Figure Skating. (yup – I watch a lot of TV during Exile)
But the restlessness pursues and I feel like I’m climbing the walls.
Exiled. Marooned. Banished.
The prophets write a great deal about exile and a people in…
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