{"id":2125,"date":"2014-11-02T15:33:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T20:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2014-11-02T15:33:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T20:33:32","slug":"the-north-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/2014\/11\/02\/the-north-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"The North Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NJ<\/a><\/p>\n

If perchance your hopes had been disappointed, you learned never to ask for more. So through good times and bad, famine and feast, the villagers held fast to their traditions. Until, one winter day, a sly wind blew in from the North…Chocolat\u2019<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

The north wind blew in last night; you could hear it in the chimney and through the windows.\u00a0 The wind was wicked this morning on our walk but we got our hour back and I was grateful for the light.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure our morning walk is going to require gloves and more layers going forward and today forced me into corduroy leggings (the most God awful, least flattering, still have them on as I write this piece of clothing in the world if you are round).<\/p>\n

You can tell by today that winter is coming but I love that it\u2019s coming.\u00a0 I love burrowing down into my home; it\u2019s quite possible I may light the first fire of the season tonight.\u00a0 I love the weight of an extra blanket on the bed and that the girls snore a bit louder in winter. It\u2019s really not a hardship for me; most of what I do is solitary (writing, photos, \u201creal job\u201d subject matter expert\u2026it\u2019s a tiny little subject) so when everyone hibernates and longs for spring I\u2019m doing my thing in a house that smells like roasting, eating soups and stews<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My office is the sunniest room in the house and the afternoon sun warms it even on the coldest days.\u00a0 It\u2019s conducive to getting any kind of work done, be it administrative or creative.\u00a0 The weather doesn\u2019t matter to me; I do that kind of work that can be done anywhere.\u00a0 I thought for a long time that I had a traditional job that chained me to a desk but not so.\u00a0 With the advent of technology I can be anywhere and work by cell phone and laptop away from the chaos of an open floor plan office with not enough white noise and safely shielded from the harsh elements. For this I am grateful.<\/p>\n

Any collaboration that is needed can be done by conference call or video blah blah.\u00a0 I learned a wonderful lesson this week about creative collaboration.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t have to be done head to head in the same room or even the same state.\u00a0 One of my dear friends was moved by the same approach of winter and wrote about it.\u00a0 She is not anxious for winter\u2019s arrival the way I am.\u00a0 I had the good fortune to be the one she trusted with her words.\u00a0 I had even more good fortune to see her on my way home from a recent business trip.\u00a0 I took some photos of her fall garden and together we created this (with her permission):<\/p>\n

\"Winter<\/a><\/p>\n

This was a week of gathering with friends in unexpected places but restorative to me none the less.\u00a0 It was all the right people saying all the right things after I voiced my concern about where I\u2019d find like-minded people who could understand that I didn\u2019t go to Houston to learn to \u201ccolor\u201d.\u00a0 There will be some people who hold fast to their traditions and they will be safely relegated to acquaintance.\u00a0 While others on the tail of the sly north wind will be boosted even further into my heart.\u00a0 All these people important as with both I have balance, but oh how I love those on the wind\u2026<\/a>\u00a0I think we’ve got to measure goodness…by what we embrace…what we create…and who we include\u2026Pere Henri\u2026Chocolat\u2019<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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