Embrace it!
I don’t know about you, but I am not yet enjoying this first snow fall of the season. It came to soon and too fast.
I am trying very hard to remember some good advice passed on to me many years ago by Canadian gold medalist Nancy Green about getting through a Canadian winter. ”Embrace it,” she said, “don’t reject” it. Nancy of course loves winter more than any other season. She and her husband now operate a ski resort complex called Sun Valley in British Columbia.
Nancy’s idea of embracing winter is to dress warm in bright colorful clothes, to decorate the outside of the house with lots of colourful lights, to play in the snow, skiing, or walking or snowshoeing or tobogganing or snowmobiling or ice fishing. To always curl up in front of a fireplace if you can, to huddle in kitchens preparing soups and chili, to bake break and drink wine.
It’s a great outlook and we do live the life she promotes, but I wasn’t going to be ready to embrace it for another few weeks or at least until the leaves got raked and the lawnmower put away!