Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Winter is Coming
There is a day, one day, that comes every year for Minnesotans: the first day that you feel cold. For me, that day came yesterday.
I was walking from my car to school. It was raining a little bit, and there were damp leaves under my feet. It reminded me of when I was kid being taken to the doctor, and feeling the damp and cold as I walked with my mom in a thin jacket. And then I was there, in full, feeling the fear a kid does in that moment, and the sense that winter was coming, had to come, because that is what winter does.
Over time, we talk ourselves out of that fear in a series of internal dialogues and public discussions, reassuring ourselves and others that really winter is not that bad and that none of us would freeze all the way through.
But on this day, that discussion has not yet begun....
