Cold Uncertainty

Today was named after Frigg and Freya. In their shared mailbox this morning:

The sad and difficult rembrance that 42 years ago last night John Lennon was assassinated.

Embracing uncertainty and living the questions yields answers to the unimagined.

[W]hen our inherited beliefs collide with the messy circumstances of our lives . . .we go from two-dimensional to vibrant and textured. . .Life is not an error, even when it is. If you believe at fifty what you believed at fifteen, then you have not lived—or have denied the reality of your life.

The effect of comfort is to make you sleepy; bitter cold promotes alertness. – Garrison Keillor

No one that I know of, including Garrison, has done a scientific analysis of it, but it does seem from my experience that Garrison's observation holds. Cold weather makes for more and better writing. While the warmth of my down comforter seems to generate more ideas. Even when I'm seduced into wearing my merino wool undies, its the coffee and the fireplace that seem to generate putting pen to page.