I moved the snowman in sunglasses from his long perch atop the bookcase to a spot on top of the Bose speaker. He has a wry smile as if to say, “It’s cool. I’m cool. Everything’s cool.”
Of course he would be cool if he really was made of snow. But he’s a plush toy. Actually, he’s an electronic toy — there’s a place to insert batteries in his bottom. So maybe his main purpose was to move about and sing a song or something.
I don’t need him to be anything more than a smiling snowman. Have I diverted him from his mission? I hope not. He is enough for me as a silent, whimsical guardian of the music.
Warren Bluhm is an award-winning community journalist, twice winner of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s prestigious Robert T. Wright Memorial Award as the best local columnist in the state. His voice was heard in thousands of radio newscasts from Green Bay to Ripon for 22 years, and his words were featured in thousands of newspaper editions for more than a quarter-century after that. He has had a digital presence since 2005 with blog posts he has collected in 10 books to date, and he has seven additional works and collections of his fiction.
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