This is the winter……

 

Dark days

Cold nights

Holidays that leave you empty, missing those no longer near

National unrest full of angry words and judgmental and vile rhetoric

Hurtful words in what should be a time of Peace and Love

 

Today was a grey, grey, day.  I never saw the sun, and to say that I felt its warmth is laughable.  Having come off a few days of sickness, I really needed that sunshine…..that warmth.  It was nowhere to be found it seemed.  Our school day began without that welcome glow through our back sliding door. 

I begin our schooling with reading a poem from Robert Frost and one from Alfred, Lord Tennyson.  Both were rather chilly in nature, as I recall.  we then follow that up with 5 or 6 pages of A Christmas Carol by Dickens.  Scrooge is being visited by the third and final ghost.  He is learning about the lack of compassion at what he must only guess is his own death.  Not the cheeriest of readings.  We move on to Latin…….. ugh.

As the kids move through their Latin worksheet they all ask for help with the diagramming and translation of two simple sentences.  And all of a sudden, THERE IT IS!!!  My sunshine!!!!  My kids are all laughing at me over some faux pas I made while diagramming sentences.  LOL  In that one moment, as we laughed until we cried and gasped for breath…….the glorious radiance of the sun flooded that house and turned the tides of sadness and doubt.  No celestial body could have ever lifted my spirits higher…….it takes the pure and unmeasured love of a child’s laugh to touch a mother’s heart.

 

…..and the heart.