#MondayThoughts: Keeping it light(s).

Today is one of those days where even the air looks gray, though there’s only the tiniest chance of snow or rain in the forecast. The temperature is right on the cusp. It’s quiet outside, though, and I wonder if people have already started their holiday weeks, traveling off to far-flung places and places just…

I.L. Wolf

December 23, 2024

2–3 minutes

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Today is one of those days where even the air looks gray, though there’s only the tiniest chance of snow or rain in the forecast. The temperature is right on the cusp.

It’s quiet outside, though, and I wonder if people have already started their holiday weeks, traveling off to far-flung places and places just flung; busily preparing at home. I wonder if anyone still does their shopping in stores, physical stores, where you can see and touch what you’re buying right there, in front of you.

And it doesn’t have to appear, days later, emerging from its cardboard chrysalis like an oddly-shaped butterfly.

Unless it actually is butterfly-shaped, and then good job, simile.

Today is one of those days where I don’t feel like telling any truths, where I don’t feel like emptying my head of its random, odd thoughts. Where I want to keep things superficial, light.

Empty.

Fa la la la la la la la la la.

This time of year has a complex weirdness to it, made even weirder with January looming ahead. There are so many dynamics, and for many of us who do not fit in with the majority, it’s the most othering time of year.

And yet.

I love the lights. I wish, perched here in Chicago where the winter means it and the days can be short, that they left the lights up until March. They make everything charming; the streetlights; the shapes of blocky buildings; the kinds of evergreen shrubs my mom would have had executed upon sight, had she the authority.

Winter is so much longer than the short jaunt through December.

After, though the days get gradually longer, they are still dark, they are still cold. And the colder nights without any charm at all.

Well, I may not have wanted to share truths, and I may not have wanted to empty my head, but here we are, check and check.

I may not have kept it light, but I did keep it lightS so I should get credit for that, I think.

Pun always intended.

With that I leave you to this holiday-adjacent Monday. Have a great day.

Buy me a cup of coffee!