A Few Ardent Things

One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter. - Thoreau

hot cocoa mittens

tight, earnest, wholehearted hugs

coy, whiskered kittens

Author's Note

“When a man is warmed by the several modes which I have described, what does he want next? Surely not more warmth of the same kind, as more and richer food, larger and more splendid houses, finer and more abundant clothing, more numerous, incessant, and hotter fires, and the like. When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to adventure on life now.” - Thoreau