Winter

Sometimes I wonder what sustains us? What brings us back to getting out of bed again? And what are the forces at work that are against us? That want us to give up? I imagine the thing that would want to destroy our boat has scales all over its body and hair in wrong places. The thing that would bring us stars is fluffy and warming, like a heated pillow.

We need to find ways to give life to the good things and death to the bad things. What gives life? I think we would need sunlight, some rain, and good soil. For death, I think we need cold. Maybe we could put death in the freezer and turn that lever thing in the back to coldest. Number 5. It is certainly strong enough to kill ice cream. At the very least, it would take a long time to thaw out. And even then it is never as good as it once was.

Life seems to need more than one element to survive. Oxygen. Water. Water has more than one element. I think it has two. Even for this planet to work all sorts of things need to work together. I am afraid for the bees. I used to be afraid of bees. Scientists tell us that bees are dying at rapid rates and we need them for pollination purposes.

So things have to work together for life to be sustained. And other elements like winter come in and try to destroy what life is doing. When winter comes, we have to dress for it. We have to change the order of things we do. Trick winter. We get heated blankets and big jackets and then it starts to feel warm like summer.

When difficult death bringing circumstances come, we have to make them look like summer. We have to clothe ourselves with the things that are life-giving, in the midst of our winter. The winter might still be there, but it wont matter. We will be armed and ready.