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Catherine Sanborn's avatar

I like the idea of alpenglow in the winter sun. I have tried it and no, I am still not going to end my showers cold. Lovely post and I enjoyed the reflections on comfort.

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Amy Brown's avatar

I love your meandering creative attentive mind, Fran, and all your reflections here on comfort. I do not like winter anymore after living in warmer climates for much of the past 17 years, first on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean for three years than in Florida (with a brief spell in Maryland between those places). Now that I am off to Barcelona, winter might be a bit cooler than Florida but still not like the New York winters of my childhood or the bitterly cold, dark Swedish winters I endured in the 22 years I lived there (Sweden has many charms; its long dark winters are not one of them).

Although there is a great Swedish idiom you would appreciate: Det finns inget dåligt väder, bara dåliga kläder! Translation: There’s no bad weather, only bad clothing.

I appreciated your poetry, the inclusion of the little story of Mel Robbins and the idea of "living with velocity," (great phrase) and especially the section on writers and comfort. There is much here in this post to lend comfort!

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