The Sun Won!

I learned a duet yesterday and thought maybe I should blog about the accomplishment since that means I've doubled my piano playing ability. Then I remembered how I had been reading aloud to Sharon from Northanger Abbey. And there was barely a sentence in it that I didn't have to guess about how to say it and what it really meant. " When the hour of departure drew near, the maternal anxiety of Mrs. Morland will naturally be supposed to be most severe. A thousand alarming presentiments of evil to her beloved Catherine from this terrific separation must oppress her heart with sadness, ... cautions against the violence of such noblemen and baronets as delight in forcing young ladies away to some remote farm-house, must, at such a moment relieve the fullness of her heart. Who would not think so? But Mrs. Morland knew so little of lords and baronets, that she entertained no notion of their general mischievousness, and was wholly unsuspicious of danger to her daughter from their machinations." (p.5, 6) How exciting! Well, Sharon and I decided there was a reason Northanger Abbey was not a celebrated Jane Austin favorite. Not like Clueless which was originally titled Emma. No, I will not write about those things, because more important than all that was that for the first time in almost a year, I went outside and was warm.
Warm! The sun came out and made the earth hospitable once again! I am cured from all that ails me. Nothing else matters except where I should go to drink up its rays - where I will be a little out of it rays but near enough to remember what warm weather is. That is my wish for you. May you be warm and may it make you unaccountably happy.