I woke up on the couch at seven o’clock this morning. Today’s chalkboard will be simple and sweet.
It is looking like the perfect day to look out the window at a cloudy December Sunday. Make cookies, wrap some presents and watch Christmas movies.
I put a season countdown in my grabber section this morning. Winter hasn’t even started yet and I’m counting the days until next spring and summer.
So much opportunity awaits over this coming winter. There can be days of comedy approaching and possibly days of tragedy.
I’m going to post the first hard thing I had to memorize in my freshman year of high school. Something by Billy Shakes….
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
Let’s hope my Winter of ‘24 isn’t like Macbeth.
I’m going into 2024 with the hope of a light hearted Shakespeare comedy. Maybe something from “The Tempest.”
“Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.”
The only reason I ever read Shakespeare’s “the Tempest” is because I liked the 1982 movie by John Cassavetes. A young Molly Ringwald was in it and a young John Shepley had a crush on her.
To conclude this Chalkboard before I continue to go nowhere….
…the winter will bring some cold. It will bring a couple polar vortexes. It might bring some tragedy and it might bring comedy. Like every winter…. Just weather the storm, get paler, add a couple pounds and keep windshield wiper fluid in the trunk.
