Hello, friends! As you can see, it’s been snowing quite a bit at the Mercuriosity Shop. The entire world seems to have been changed to black and white. I’ve been taking things slowly here. I find January is a perfect month to catch up on things, or let things catch up with me. The sun sleeps in late, and some days doesn’t roll out from under his gray flannel blankets at all. Snow, conversations, and hours all drift on these diffuse days. Spirits murmur in low tones, drained after the greenery has faded to brownery and crimson ribbons have been put in yellowed boxes for another year. Formless shadows collect in high corners, no longer scurrying from pinpoints of Christmas lights glinting from brass and chrome bells.

I enjoy the quiet solitude of these January days.