Sun and warmth are finally meandering their way into Chicago. This means that people are uncurling from their apartments and remembering that there is pleasant living beyond the sofa.
I sometimes worry that I don't have friends in the winter.
I have been more social in the last week than the last four months combined. A super fun outing that I just embarked on with my friends Betsy and Sara was a neighborhood exchange. I went up to their 'hood to see their favorite everyday places. Saw their bar, coffee shop, bookstore, and Swedish pastry shop. Soon I'll have them down to our lands between lands to walk my walks, snack my snacks, and drink my drinks. Maybe we'll swim in the community pool and eat popsicles from the paleta man with his wandering bells. I'm excited to show them my space.
I wonder what will be lost by having them down for the free and easy sunshine versus the trapped, stilted winter. Because that's when we really live in these places -the mile radius around the house is our whole world.
Next year I'll make snowshoes.
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