A Southernism, Monday, January 22, 2024

Posted on January 22, 2024 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

 

A southerner doesn’t truly understand cold.

Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept of cold. But the mind is an overprotective parent. What it doesn’t care for, it hides. Like many inhabiting the subtropics, Anne had repressed the reality of subzero mercury.

—Thomas Wolfe

 

 

(Thanks to Kim for the beautiful photo of my frigid yard)

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About Deborah Fagan Carpenter

The creative and professional life of Deborah Fagan Carpenter has taken many directions: visual merchandiser, decorator, potter, sculptor, modern expressionist painter, photographer, and freelance feature writer. As Contributing Editor at PorchScene, her contributions are fueled by her love of all things beautiful, interesting, edible, and Southern.
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One Response to A Southernism, Monday, January 22, 2024

  1. Bob Koenig says:
    January 22, 2024 at 9:39 AM

    Love Thomas Wolfe. My favorite writer.

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