"coyote des neiges" is a favorite blog of mine, which I came across a few months ago by chance. The blog's author, a French-Canadian, is humorous and knowledgeable, without ever sounding presumptuous. In her recent blog entry, she writes about spending Christmas alone. Christmas is supposed to be a time of gathering, cheer, and parties, but she says, this year, she is going to be by herself. She sniffs: oh, solitude! ah, solitude! Then she looks in the thesaurus and starts listing all the synonyms of "solitude," like abandonment, recluse, exile, isolation, separation, dereliction, Thebaide.... She humorously adds that she didn't recognize the last two. "But wait," she says. "There are more synonyms than just those." She then ingeniously puts together a second list of synonyms that include: cocoon, shelter, a place of rest, den, refuge, oasis, peace. After all, she lives in snow country, where, yes, it is better to stay inside, and even be a little bit misanthrope.
Yeah! I think even if one didn't live in snow country, one is allowed to celebrate and have a merry Solitude (read: Peace, Refuge, Oasis...).
Here is the blog's URL:
http://coyote-des-neiges.blogspot.com/. Her entry on her New Year's eve in Paris was also hilarious and very well-written! And so was her entry on public toilets, or her fear thereof.
Joyeux Noël !
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