Winter “To-Do” List

Page from John Updike's A Child's Calendar

Let me share with you one Winter “To-Do” list by Nikki McClure in Remember: A Seasonal Record:

• Build a fire
• Eat with friends
• Go to the library
• Walk at night
• Have a sauna salon
• Make friends with the neighbor’s cat
• Read cookbooks
• Eat kale
• Sleep in
• Barter
• Make tamales
• Heat it
• Follow racoon tracks in the snow

And here is my seasonal “To-Do” List:

• Wear woolen socks
• Finish a hand-quilting project
• Snowshoe on a mountain trail
• Curl up under a quilt with a pile of library books
• Warm up with a bowl of Vietnamese pho
• Sit among growing things in a conservatory
• Go on a winter hike
• Feast my eyes in an art museum
• Build a snowman
• Drink hot chocolate with a melting marshmallow on top
• Sleep between flannel sheets