It’s a new day, a different day and with it comes a different view.

It is no longer Monday but is now, surprisingly, Tuesday.  It is no longer snowing but there is still a good bit of snow, for early November at least, on the ground.  But not on the streets, or the sidewalks, or driveways…the sun is out and although the air temperature is still a bit below freezing the sun is out and that solar warmth is absorbed below by the asphalt and the concrete and has melted the snow cover that was so recently there.  Some of what is out there still lies covered but some lies bare.

It is a different day, a new day and it is clear; and sunny; and looks warm through the windows.

Some of the sunniest days in my rather extended memories happened to happen on some of the coldest days.  It looks so warm through the windows, out there, outside of here.  Even the glass is slightly warm to the touch on such days even through the wind and bitter blow.   Brrr but it’s warm today.

Sometimes it is all about appearances isn’t it?

A long time ago I wondered what it would be like and now, today, in so many ways, I know.  Sometimes it was a surprise and sometimes not.  Sometimes I knew just how it would feel and with that often came a letdown- nothing new, nothing different…just as I knew it would be.

But sometimes there are surprises.  Sometimes good ones, sometimes not.  Sometimes seen, sometimes not.  Sometimes welcome and sometimes not.  Just surprises.

I once knew a man who thought he had it all- and I did as well.  The only thing that he seemed to find out as time went on was that it wasn’t really all or nothing, just something less than all and something more than nothing.  He seemed sad to finally, one day, realize this, but he kept on, trying to rebuild all from something other than nothing.  I lost touch with him and often wonder if he was successful.  I’d imagine he was at least partially so, having had it all and having come from not much more than nothing.

And so it is sometimes with days like these that follow on from days like those, from a day like yesterday.  If you didn’t know any better you’d think it was a nice, warm day and you might just head outside, calendar be damned, in just your favorite jeans and a short-sleeved shirt.  And just as you’re ready to step out and enjoy the day that early blast of arctic air hits you and you pause, perhaps shiver a bit, and take note- it isn’t as you imagined it would be.  So then now has arrived a new choice, do you see?

In fact, there are a few, even several.  And that’s usually the case in most things if you really think about it.  And time is much more friendly when there are still choices to be had, and choices still left to be made.