Making It Up As I Go Along #394

Snow Migration

The birds and insects of the world do it.
They migrate as the year goes on.
Picking up and venturing thousands of kilometres north.
To stay for a while before picking up once again and heading back from where they came.

Whales as well.
The oceans being a great plain.
Where great beasts march half the globe as herds of bison.
Imagine the scene if only the sea was less secretive with that which goes on within.

White bears migrate from the land to the sea.
Standing around and waiting for oceans to freeze.
Then venturing out when all others bundle up.
Our burden becomes Polar Bear joy.

Ice mountains migrate each Spring.
Snapping off of ice continents and drifting through ice waters.
They appear along southern shores as a reminder of cold.
When the land begins to soften and warm.

And then there’s snow.

Spending the summers in the north.
Happy in it’s element and hostile to intruders.
Freezing and starving intruders.
Burying them for millennia.

Then beginning it’s southward trek.
By late September, you hear of it.
Snows appearing along the northern shores.
Often coming overnight, and then retreating during the day.

And as time goes on, the snow becomes less tentative.
Staying longer in the daylight hours.
Venturing further south.
News casts broadcast the migration pattern as it comes ever closer to human populations.

And then it arrives.
Snow
That wasn’t there one day.
Infests the next.

We run for cover.
When venturing outdoors,
We live in a constant muscular tension.
Trying to keep out the infestation.

Roadways become impassible.
Active Meadows become ghostly deserts.
Ponds become land.
And flats become mountains.

Months will pass and the return migration north will follow.
Where the snows will be drawn back north.
Leaving the southern lands.
And leaving the permanent inhabitants to return outside, relaxed and happy.


MONDAY...
— Dentist in the morning and then back to AFIS work in the evening. Went okay tonight. Easy going and quiet.
— Hang with Geoff for a bit after work as he’s in for a day or two of business. Then some TV and bed.

TUESDAY...
— Greek food for Kiyomi, Devin, Martin and me... yum.

WEDNESDAY...
— Storm day. Still have to go to work after pushing a neighbour’s car into their parking space.

THURSDAY...
— AFIS Christmas luncheon. Go with Sarah and Kiyomi and sit with them and Derek. A fun time.
— It’s half day off for Christmas... I take some leave to make it a full day instead... so today’s work is just the luncheon.
— Rolling Stone’s top 100 albums and songs of the decade are out. Wilco has the number 3 (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) and 97 (Sky Blue Sky) albums. And Jesus etc. is the 67th top song. Good stuff.

FRIDAY...
— Laundry and groceries during the day, and for the night, drinks with a bunch from work. I originally thought it was simply for a group of us to have some fun... but it ends up it was all organized by Jamie to wish me a farewell from CPSIC and hello to AFIS. Melissa, Nick, Dusty, Sue, Phil, Jamie, Annick, Sarah Roy and Sarah Wright, Julia, Roz, Sheila, Jonathan, Terry and Larry are all there. A card from Terry makes it extra fun.

SATURDAY...
— UFC night. Phil, Osana and I check it out. PJ Penn was amazingly good tonight.