the freezer has been on since december. streets are all cover by white detritus of dinosaurs. snow mountains at the border of the sidewalks. gray snow, black snow. everywhere. the worst situation is when it rains inside the freezer. the floors become very dangareous. it is hazarding walking to work. the sidewalks as skate rinks. but one is their shoes or snickers or special winter boots with super special materials in their soil. i saw two slapstick scene live in cambridge street. very fast but the walkers ended in the floor. hit the ground. usually falling in their buttocks. usually it happens very fast and one just see when the person is laying on the ground, trying to recover themselves, with surprised faces. as a moment of gravity revelation. how many times did you fall? how many times did you recover? i remember last winter i fell while i was talking in the phone. i started to speak and talk with my friend and focus my attention far away from the icy ground. and suddenly i was doing a flip in the air, hitting the ground with my posterior and my legs on the air. i laughed. i was surprised. it was not even painful. buttocks are ok for falls. knees could be more dangerous. and the pain could be way more.
last saturday night i fell in an ice rink in harvard law school and my knees still hurt. the rink was not in very good condition. snow was all over the place. it was late, almost midnight. before arriving to the rink we walked around the campus and throw snow balls to the trunks of the trees. there were little eliptical targets in the surfaces of the trunks. the challenge was to paint the target with the white snow. it was difficult. we were in the walking paths and the trees were at least 7 meters beyond us. i tried several times, and just got one in the border of one of the eliptical targets. snow was everywhere and was soft easy to mold, easy to ball. you take it into your hands and you shape a little egg or ball, and then you swing with your body and throw the ball as a baseball player.
i put a pair of skates that were near to the public ice rink. they were cold and humid. icy and watery. but i had to do it. i wanted to glide on ice. i jumped into the rink and started to skate. it was difficult. i lost my balance several times. i glide though. i made several loops to the rink so i decided to do more complicated tricks. the moon was huge and the snow in the rink was silver like. white moon ice light. i felt i was loosing my equilibrium and thought i would fall. i thought that. and then decided to fall very slowly. wanted to fall with my whole body very slow and try the icy ground. so i bent my knees and hit the rink ground. it was like a huge fall. like a hammer hit in your knees super amplified. like a doctor testing the reflexes of a patient but way more strong. almost like an anvil. i felt and the pain was so hard, i turn around, saw the moon huge and wanted to wakke up. my legs were shaking as marakas but i was like plenty of light or electricity or reflexes or sound or ice or moonlight. however i managed to stay still and stand up. and overcome the cold pain, and started to glide again. i felt like blood was running through my legs, but actually it was not. it was just like a strange ice-ground electro shock. painful , but pleasant. after 6 days i still feel my legs different. like renewed. i am glad i can walk and jump and stand up.