re·sil·ience
rəˈzilyəns/
- 1.the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.
Winter has come to my hometown and it stays and stays, until it is no longer welcome. We wrap ourselves into layer upon layer of clothes until we are invisible. We dream of spring days, and the warm air on our bare legs and feet.
It all is a cycle. Winter to Spring to Summer and onto Fall. Again, again and again.
I like to call it Yankee Resilience. Short and Sweet.
- We fall on the ice, we get up and take another step.
- We weed our gardens in the rain.
- We don't follow fashion trends.
- We were clothes until they disintegrate or go into the rag basket.
- We celebrate holidays with hand made cards.
- We regift the same present to the same people as a joke.
- Are hands get dirty and we don't wear nail polish.
- We embrace our dear friends.
- We help out neighbors.
- We smile at strangers.
- We love beans and brown bread.
- We love lobster almost as much as we love our odd sayings, and accents.
- We are into old things; such as tools, houses, graves, and our clothes.
- We cherish each season, love the quirks of the season, remember the bugs, heat and frogs of the spring and summer. We remember the ice storms or the winter of over 100 inches of snow.
- We embrace hurricanes.
- We love Yankee swaps, crazy sock contests, and locally brewed beers.
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