Thoughts on a Tuesday

As seen on my friend Seara's profile:

‎"...Until we can be grateful for what we have...we will not be happy. When we go into gratitude, we let go of the expectations and open the door to allow space for what we really do want."
-Denise Silvernail

This is what the past few weeks have been like:

This is us in London, wearing as many layers of our thread-bare clothes as we could reasonably fit under our jeans and paper-thin jackets.  (Coming from a year in 90 degree weather with 90 percent humidity immediately into something like a 45 degree drizzle was nothing short of a full-body shock.  And I had the hives--no, wait, the welts!--to prove it!)  You will also notice our keen sense of fashion...

Yes, this January was something for the annals of most miserable winters ever.  I've never been so cold for so many days in a row.  We're talking multiple mornings of ice inside my office, people!

But, lo, a ray of light appeared, this is what this week has been like:

Aaron and our good friend.  We all somehow found ourselves on a private sandbar in the middle of the Indian Ocean.  Seriously.

OK, not quite.

But seriously, we go from -10 degrees to 49 degrees in one week...that's a net change of pretty much 60 degrees.

I'd call that a heat wave.

Perhaps trying to be grateful for winters in Indiana recently opened the door to allow space for what I really do want:

Spring.