A New Mexico State of Mind

Perhaps it is because it is cold and snowing... and will be for months and months to come, but I have been thinking about NM a lot. Shards of memories come to me. Driving with all my windows down. Everyone being outside in the front of their house, rather than the back. How rain was treated as a shower of gold. When it snowed there, everything was shut down and people were warned not to leave their houses.

In this weather, sometimes I can't even get my window down. Everyone's bundled up in their homes. When it rains it creates ice. And when it snows, I still have to go out.