Keller @ Large: Happy Thoughts To Escape Winter
BOSTON (CBS) - Twenty below zero, and another foot of snow coming on Monday?
Are you kidding me?
At times like these I always wonder what we did to deserve this. Did we anger Mother Nature in some way? Did we infuriate Canada to the point where they're sending their weather down here?
I don't know the answer. But I have the solution – mind over matter.
If we all just think happy, spring and summertime thoughts, we can't melt the snow and ice, but we can escape it, if only temporarily. So fantasize along with me as I repeat my annual mid-winter mantra, and together, we can show this winter who's boss:
* The way the air smells on that first fluky 80-degree day in April, and the way the sausages smell on the grill that night when you spark it up for the first time;
* The sight of the field at Fenway Park when you arrive at your first game of the season;
* The sound of kids playing basketball down the block after dinner, when it's still light at 7:30 p.m;
* That first clam roll, the whole bellies, slathered in tartar sauce, on a perfectly grilled bun;
* The chocolate frappe you wash it down with, or maybe the soft ice-cream with the chocolate dip that breaks off and falls on your shirt, and you just don't care;
* The way the ocean feels when you dive in for the first swim of the season, knowing it is only the first of many;
* Sitting on the porch with the game on the radio, when it's not too hot but not too cool, and the rest of the spring and summer is spread out ahead of you.
Feels good, doesn't it?
Let's face it, winter – you are no match for the power of the Bostonian mind.
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