winter issue

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Clear and cool. Winter issue of Vermont Life Magazine, and clementines for sale in stores. Wearing boots to work on snowy days. Tracks in the snow. The winter constellation, Orion, rising solemnly in the east in the early evening.

If it's winter, one must have a mind of winter-indeed, one must be winter-to be here. That is, not thinking of spring, not longing for summer, for something that doesn't exist now, here. This mind isn't reaching for some other place.

And if it's summer, one must have a mind of summer. There is no other place. We're forever here.

Steve Hagen

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