Let's Pretend

Let's pretend it's not 40 degrees outside and gusting wind. Let's pretend there's a beachside chaise lounge with a fluffy hotel towel warming itself in the late afternoon sun, a glass of fresh squeezed lemonade leaving condensation on the armchair. Yes, I am one of many who begins to lose faith a little bit as the winter months drag on endlessly while my skin grows paler and my patience thinner. To be honest, January and February give me the blues. The holiday season fades into a distant memoir of the year that has past in the last sparkling minutes of a new year's countdown, and spring isn't even a glimmer on the horizon. As I settle into this wintery dilemma, I wonder whether I will be able to live in cold climates for another year. And yet, I do. Perhaps in some ways I would miss the seasons changing too much, or maybe the idea of endless summer is so unfathomable that I cease to believe it exists. There really isn't much I wouldn't give for some beachside r&r right now. Since the probability of such an occurrence is slim, I will dream of what I would be wearing, let's pretend....