We got another load of snow this past weekend and the temperature remained cold enough to keep it on the ground and streets. I was sitting in traffic behind an older pickup truck when I caught a faint hint of an engine running slightly rich and burning just a little oil, a scent uncommon to our age of electronically managed fuel mixtures and hardened metal engine blocks. For just a few moments I felt emotionally very connected to a time long ago when that scent was ever present on the cold weather roads. I distinctly remembered some of the feeling of leaving the house on a cold winter’s morning with that uncertain but unquestioned sense of who I was and where I might be going. Sitting there in traffic I wasn’t certain that I wanted to leave, but the light changed to green and I was compelled, willing or otherwise, to rejoin the transient touring of twenty-first century transportation types.<\/p>\n
I just thought I might share that with you all, but even as I was typing I could hear a faint but distinguishable voice from the back of my head whispering, “Stop it, Frosty, you’re scaring the children.”<\/p>\n
Sweet dreams. Look for me in the mist. I’ll be the one with the empty eyes whistling an almost familiar tune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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