Ahh, morning...

You should see the light today, enough of a presence from Mother Nature to make any city beautiful. It was meant to be below freezing all night last night. Now the sun is shining from behind some thin clouds, just enough to make everything golden-frosted, the kind of light that grabs every surface it can but leaves the shadows just enough room to make for good contrast. One of the streetlights above me (one of the few which has turned off already) has a little drip of sunlight at the bottom of its globe like dew rolling down in the slight warmth of the new morning. There's magic at every turn; it's like being in a storybook.

 

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Remember when....

 

'Carbs' were 'carbos'? When did this change? Was it when people traded in their terry cloth head- and wristbands, and their Reeboks for Adidas... when jogging became running... when people realized Richard Simmons wasn't really acting... when Just Say No became Just Leave Me Alone...?

 

Remember when...

 

They played the national anthem on TV and waved the flag around, say, midnight or 1 am, and if you had the TV on too late or turned it on too early, all you saw was fizzy snow or else those colored bars with a long beep behind them?

 

Remember when...

 

Almonds were sensible and cashews were extravagant?

 

Did you ever think about...

 

through

slough

though

thorough

dough

bough

plough

rough

enough

trough

cough