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Jan Underwood's avatar

As always when I read your work, I wonder how it is possible that you are you but that somehow you are also me.

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Jonathan Edward Durham's avatar

I get that a lot lol

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Ana's avatar

Exactly my thoughts! Para-social twinsies. From the glory of the One True Autumn to the soup necessity. My personal choice was the pipeline to Florida from the DC area. 🌞🌞🌞

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afton koontz's avatar

My parents moved from Montana for a reason. It was a four letter word that beginning with S.

Yeah. That one.

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Jonathan Edward Durham's avatar

S-N-O-W

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Paulette's avatar

Great article, I still love winter though, lol. The Shining reference was hilarious.

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mb's avatar

Oh, so that is what it was. I never saw the movie, only snippets of it on social media. Thanks.

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Brenda Campbell's avatar

Hilarious! Love your work so much!

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Jonathan Edward Durham's avatar

Thank you!

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Mark Skelton's avatar

Your essays never fail to make me smile and, which can be frustrating for me...and for my co-worker, ..you always provide oodles of emminently quotable lines, so thank you. And more power to your elbow.

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Jonathan Edward Durham's avatar

❤️

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Jason Polkovitz's avatar

I miss Autumn. New York used to have a proper, gorgeous, glorious Autumn. Now it is just pre-Winter. Stupid climate change.

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Jonathan Edward Durham's avatar

I miss old autumn too

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Jenny's avatar

Ugggghhh yahhhhhh.

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Mary Routzahn's avatar

Truth, all of it. And SO WELL said Jonathan.

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Jonathan Edward Durham's avatar

❤️

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Sue Corley's avatar

Cabin-bound for the last five days as I'm reading this, so yes! Soup has saved me. Delicious beef and barley soup. And alcohol. Should we talk about the alcohol? Nah!

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Jonathan Edward Durham's avatar

Love beef and barley soup

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Megan Clouse's avatar

So funny, oh so many good moments! But also I love winter - not for the weather but for the quiet down time to get stuff done because during Summer I'm busy being in the ocean. ;)

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Christina's avatar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMDTdC5xoV0

Kermit agrees!

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joanne leva's avatar

Thank you for this post. A much-needed reminder for me to make soup.

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Jonathan Edward Durham's avatar

Do ittttttt

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Crystal Marie, Artist's avatar

Right there with you. Except, when you wrote "Autumn," I think you meant "Spring."

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Jonathan Edward Durham's avatar

Nooooooope 😉

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Jeanne Rietzke's avatar

I'm a Southerner. What is s-n-o-w? After, and by that I mean if, we survive hurricane season, we sync up with you and have the Holidays. Might be cooler. Might not. Then we have January and February. We're not sure it's winter but the bugs are fewer and we stay below 70, so maybe? Then we have Sprinter from March through May. It might be spring, but I'm in NORTH Carolina so it might revert back to cold. Idk. Then we have 4 glorious months of Hell's Front Porch before, yep, you guessed it, Hurricane season. Just another trip around the sun. 🌞🌞

Loved the Shining reference...all work and no play...🤣🤣

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Pamela J Detwiler's avatar

Winter sucks. Hard pass. Unless I can work remotely and have everything delivered so I don't have to leave the house. So....hibernation. I'm on board with hibernation.

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Jonathan Edward Durham's avatar

Yup hibernation would pretty much fix everything lol

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Lori's avatar

As someone who lives where the seasons are summer, still summer, summer with pumpkins, and deer season, I've never really understood winter. It looks intriguing. Our few, nonconsecutive weeks below 50 degrees is what we call winter down here. It's nice unless it comes with that nasty ice stuff (we don't get actual snow in the south). Then it's fights at the Piggly Wiggly and rednecks in pick-ups rescuing people who've crashed into ditches. At least the rednecks are good for something...

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