The Here and Now

You know that painful headache you can get from eating ice cream too fast.
The screaming crystallization of your frontal lobe.
The searing reminder that slow and steady really does win the race.

Imagine that instead of shoving spoon after spoon of yummy mint chocolate chip into your mouth, your bowl is, instead, full of dry ice.
And you continue to eat it at that break neck speed.

That was the feeling in my head had on the way to school this morning.

It was -8 degrees with a wind chill of -29.

I think winter just might be here.