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How to Survive Winter

Posted on January 26, 2012 // 2 Comments
A dirt path leads to palm trees at sunset

Palm Sun­set — © Copy­right 2012 by William Beem

Who can resist a path to a nice sun­set under the palm trees? You can just imag­ine the ocean breeze and con­ve­nient cock­tail ser­vice. There’s only one way to sur­vive the Win­ter months, and that’s to avoid it. You can’t stop the snow, but you can leave town. Go some­place warm and learn a new def­i­n­i­tion of “chill.” Relax. Watch the coconuts grow. Watch the sun­set. For­get about putting chains on your tires.

For­get ski­ing. Hurtling down a moun­tain on a pair of sticks is an unnat­ural act that’s fraught with dan­ger. Did you ever notice there are no songs about ski­ing, but there are plenty of songs about the beach? Go ahead, sit there with a drink in your hand and your toes in the sand. It’s only natural.

There’s a rea­son I was born here.

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  • http://www.ogrephotography.com/ Michelle Hed­strom

    Ok you chal­lenged me, you should know bet­ter than to say there’s “noth­ing” of some­thing. “Ski Bum” by Darin Tal­bot — http://​www​.ama​zon​.com/​S​k​i​-​B​u​m​-​S​o​n​g​/​d​p​/​B​0​0​4​5​F​5​M0O

    You can say there’s “almost no songs” about ski­ing, which would be true.

    • http://www.williambeem.com William

      That’s it? One song, and you had to search hard for it? Please, Michelle. That just dri­ves my point home even more when you com­pare it to all the won­der­ful songs writ­ten about beaches, trop­i­cal islands and warm breezes — not to men­tion boat drinks! Jimmy Buf­fet is the inter­na­tional ambas­sador of prov­ing my point.

      By the way, I lis­tened to the sam­ple. It reminds me that you can’t un-​ring a bell.