2 November 2023

The cold is brutal, completely sucks the life out of you. What I like about living in a rural area is living with the season. I dread Winter every year because it’s historically the hardest time of the year. If we didn’t want to celebrate birth days, counting the number of Winters a person has survived would be worth celebrating. People in the Army would often say, “This isn’t cold.” because every Winter in northern New York it’s certain to get past negative double digits, the coldest temperature I’ve been in was -40 which I believe is the same in fahrenheit and celsius. Even experiencing skin numbing cold, I’d still say cold is cold. When we lived in Texas, a 60 degree F winter felt cold. Living in a place for at least a year will acclimate the body. When we have sharp temperature differences there’s an attack on the body. The leaves have dried up on the trees, now a strong wind will knock them off. There has to be a similar effect on human’s, we’re also effected by our decrease in sunlight. The baby has been going to sleep around 6 pm for a couple weeks now and I’ve noticed the intensity of the sun at that time decreasing. Where I used to cover the cracks in the curtains, I now know the room will be dark. I’m no scientist, but I’m told humans don’t photosynthesize. Although I think I’m also told humans need sunlight to produce vitamin D which literally sounds like photosynthesis. At this point I’m done arguing with biologists, or anyone, I do wonder a lot about what’s going on with universities and what the best path of education will be for my child. It’s like anything else, no one is going to care about your job as much as you. I will know more, I will teach more.