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This is my dipping of my feet in different kinds of writing as I explore my mind.
The creature of the north is stomping around this weekend giving us the warnings that yes indeed, he’s coming for us. Winter is when a certain character gleefully released from his stronghold in Siberia by Mother Nature without concern for his wanton and chill inducing ways.
Jack Frost has become a very angry guy in the last few years. Here in Denver we’ve had to suffer while he cackles into the whistling wind like the darker version of the joyful Santa Clause. We’re left to scrape his sneezes of our windshields in the early morning hours, cursing everything around us and making the roads full of grumps and chumps.
We have to sit and wait for the engines to warm up and bundle in sixteen layers to keep warm while waiting for the complaining cars to purr once more.
A dash of flakes here. Dumping a blizzard out of nowhere there. Careening temperature levels over that way and the fake out of sun in the morning just for good measure. Jack Frost has become really good at Winter and I don’t expect Mother Nature to try and stop him. She’s got enough going on with the new red headed stepchild in the family. After La Nina and El Nino came into being I suppose she’s used to these surprises. Global Warming is more tempestuous than Jack Frost because he meddles in all seasons. His time may be short on this earth as the poor souls under his reign begin to see a way to slow his affect.
Although if you ask Mother Nature she ruefully will shake her head and tell you he can’t be stopped no matter what those ants below do. The truth? Behind that all knowing smile Mother Nature isn’t sure either. There’s a big boss above her and he ain’t telling.
In the end, He’s got the whole world in his hands.
