There’s different kind of pond life going on now on the pond behind our house. The neighborhood skating rink is back in action.Two days ago our neighbor kitty-corner across the pond cleared a large area for skating.
And so the
Winter Pond Life
begins.
This year I think we will see more skaters than ever before. It’s something for families and kids to do outside in this time of pandemic.
Yesterday there were numerous skaters on the pond. And last night a rousing hockey game took place with 10 – 12 neighborhood kids having a great game lit by a yard light that our neighbors put up last year.
“A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.”
― Advice to a Young Critic
My favorite skaters yesterday were a dad and his two children. The older child, a boy, was getting hockey lessons from his dad. He was just learning to skate and often stumbled and fell but got up and tried again and again. And the younger child, a girl, sans skates was having a great time exploring, pushing snow onto the skating rink area and kicking the hockey puck her brother and dad were using.
I couldn’t hear the conversation that went on between dad and daughter, but it appeared that he allowed her to simply do whatever interested her. And then he would patiently push the snow off the rink where she had so joyfully scattered it.
This morning the skaters were out on the pond again. And today there were more of them than yesterday. What a beautiful sight.
In winter
all the singing is in
the tops of the trees— Mary Oliver
May you walk in beauty.
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