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I think I was meant to hibernate.

If it weren’t for a few superbly lovely things that tend to happen between December and March, much would be better with the world if I slept through those months and woke up to the wonderment of spring. For now that it has hit, I want to stay awake all the time to soak it in. I just think that if I had slept for a few months before now, it could feasible.

Admittedly it is raining a lot recently, but it’s the kind of rain that comes and goes and then everything is more green and everything smells amazingly. Yesterday the park smelled pink and green to me. Like sweets and new grass all wrapped up together. When it was cold enough that I needed to come inside, I felt like I should ignore my work and make a quilt that would be suitable for sitting on the ground for long periods of time. Since we moved in, I have been looking forward to days when it is warm and dry enough to sit in the park with a notebook and actually use it as a workplace. Just now and again. It seems so frivolous a goal, and yet so perfect.

At the same time, I am quite shocked that it is nearly May. But increased productivity over the past few days may have made me miss the days as they passed. Good things are happening. I did stop for a bit last night to watch something I have been wishing to see for so long: Salmer fra kjøkkenet, a beautifully simple film about post-war kitchen research in Norway. Except it’s not really about that at all. I laughed, I cried and I remained very grateful for short bursts of fresh blue sky.

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