buttoned and zippered to the throat

anyone else go snowshoeing over thanksgiving? I thought not. furthermore, how many places in the u.s. can you drive nine hours and not cross the state border? texas? cali? alaska? and michigan. the upper peninsula promised and delivered, in spades. we listened to sufjan stevens' michigan album twice. four hours from the nearest freeway, we enjoyed an alternative thanksgiving meal of spanakopita and no-sugar-added apple pie. much tea was drunk. we forded a stream on snowshoes via felled logs. I did my best to impress friends and family. I think I was fairly successful.

I give thanks for love and warmth, friends and family, and those little star-crossed moments of serendipity that alter your life in ways you never imagined.