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Susan Dromey Heeter is a writer from Dover who recently let her hair go au natural white. Writing has been her passion since her English majoring days at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Dromey Heeter has lived in The Netherlands, Alaska and currently basks in all things New England, including the frigid winters. An avid swimmer, Dromey Heeter’s great passion is to bring back body surfing as most children have no idea how to ride waves without ridiculous boogie boards.
It’s a beautiful Saturday to muse joyfully, to think of spring ahead, to hear the birds coming back, coming alive, singing their songs. The buds are ready to burst and the shades of green are incredible. It’s spring, musers, it’s spring.
So, as I’d grabbed my Norton Anthology of Poetry for the trip, I ate M&M’s and I read poetry out loud to pass the hours.
I saw a hawk this morning using the wind to coast, to flow, to float, to rise above some rocks.
Relief can present herself in a myriad of forms, realizing there is just enough toilet paper, learning a tumor is benign, waking up and realizing it’s Saturday.
There are wonderful things about March: Saint Patrick’s Day, Daylight Savings, Easter on occasion, the melting of snow.
I muse joyfully on wearing a mother’s clothes; I know my own mother’s wardrobe consisted of a lot of polyester pants and orthotic shoes.
Today I muse joyfully on the half price Valentine candy sales that are sure to take place Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday of this week.
And today, dear musers, are ways you too might enjoy mid-winter pick me ups that carry you through ice storms, Covid, winter blahs.
Today I muse joyfully on some of the heartiest New Englanders who I witnessed at a Portsmouth snowball fight, an unofficial event after Saturday’s blizzard that brought young and old out to fling some snowballs, laugh under a blue sky on Market Square.
