{"id":7081,"date":"2018-11-20T16:08:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T21:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\\\/\\\/juliecusmariu.com\\\/staging\/?p=7081"},"modified":"2018-11-20T16:08:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T21:08:55","slug":"down-on-winter-when-its-still-fall-and-motherhood-in-winter-in-montreal-when-its-still-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliecusmariu.com\/staging\/2018\/11\/motherhood\/down-on-winter-when-its-still-fall-and-motherhood-in-winter-in-montreal-when-its-still-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Down on Winter When It’s Still Fall and Motherhood in Winter (in Montreal, When It’s Still Fall)."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cFor real ? \u201c Words spoken ever so sweetly and curiously by my 4.5 year old. This time I\u2019m the one asking \u201cFor, real?\u2019 Could winter really be here? It\u2019s November. Saying I’m reluctant to welcome winter would be an understatement. I\u2019m not usually one to get down on the weather or nature or cycles, but I’ve literally been stopping fellow parents in the school hallway to check in and see if it\u2019s just me. I mean of course it\u2019s not just me, but still\u2026I need some reassurance or some way through.<\/p>\n

Some, of the parents\/friends I stopped seemed equally dismayed or unprepared and yet the odd few seemed to be stoked. I loved hearing from those people because I could recognize myself in them, only that self is barely recognizable, at least right now. Weighing heavily on my dismay is this thought really, \u201cOh man we really have messed this up, haven\u2019t we? Climate change. Climate in crises. And \u201cOh man, winter with my 2 young boys, am I ready ? \u201cAnd for 6 months ? That\u2019s what the store clerk at the hardware store reminded me of yesterday. \u201cYes, 6 months of this\u201d she said to me with a neutral tone. I was looking for reassurance from her too, no such luck! She did give me perspective, however.<\/p>\n

\u2b50\ufe0fSo here\u2019s to the light and the love and the joy my dog announces to me when we go outside and the delight in my kids being themselves, beautiful as they are, and playing in the gorgeous white snow. Here\u2019s to being responsible to this precious planet and taking good care of our individual selves, as seasons change, unprecedented climate change happens, and as responsibilities to our kids and others change and evolve. Here\u2019s to being with it all. It’s a practice (for me anyway).

I\u2019m going to take my dog out for another walk and see if some of her light heartedness can rub off on me, in the snow of course.<\/p>\n

Cheers to you, to us, to this planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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