A Limerick A Day to Keep You On Your Way February 4 Winter Writer’s Wit

February 4

Winter can make you into a hermit.

Stay warm inside and just sit.

So use this season,

Don’t try to reason.

Write whatever is in your wit.

Winter Writer’s Wit

I can really be hard on myself in the winter months.  I just want to crawl up into a blanket and stay there until Spring.  Late, really late Spring at that.  I live for the warm weather and 12 hours of sunlight is just fine with me.  Are you like that too?

So why do I stay here in New England?  Yes I love the trees in the fall and the smell of leaves and wood burning.  Could I take 70 degrees on Thanksgiving? Heck, yeah. Christmas season without cold and snow?  Strangely no.  Santa in a swimsuit delivering packages is unnerving. New Year’s can be 70 again.

Spring with its chilly rain, blah. Summer and a hot balmy night, ah!  I crave warmth all the time.  It was that way even as a child.  Summer always brought some kind of deep peace to my soul.  I never wanted it to end.

Several years back I visited a friend in Venice, Florida.  Nine days, in July.  It was hot.  I really thought about moving there.  Just couldn’t convince my family to make the move.  Fast forward 9 years and I seriously considered Arizona.  In fact I had a plan to sell my house and go out there for 3 months.  I came close to selling the house but through some very unprofessional dealings it just didn’t happen.  It’s all good though and I foresee an even better plan unfolding.  Sure I will need to suck up some winters but I think it is a test.  A test to see if I will be disciplined to write like I said I would.  I gave myself a mandate to write every day for 1 year.  A few words or a lot of words.  Just do it! is my mantra for all of 2018. 

I heard these great words a few days ago.  Write like you are writing to one person but many will read it.  Today my one person is me.  Do it!  Do it now!  Write even if you have to press the delete button a hundred times until the words sound good to yourself.  Write until you feel your heart has been emptied knowing once you stop it is because you will begin again tomorrow. Write and do it now!  Do it now until you have no more wit.