During my years at Princeton, I could never figure out why everyone from Seattle wore fleeces (and drove Subarus). I now completely understand the benefits of wearing a fleece.
Today was supposedly one of the coldest days ever in the Seattle area (low near 25 degrees). I have learned quickly that big snow jackets are a rarity, if not an embarrassment out here. I probably would have worn on my big East Coast jackets today if it didn't make me look like the type of person that I am - an East Coast person.
I received a fleece as a Christmas gift and I have been wearing it every day. Today, I wore it up to the mountains and I didn't feel cold at all. In fact, I could barely tell that it was below 20 degrees.
This may seem like a boring observation to a majority of the fleece-wearing world but I am in total awe of the fleece.
There is nothing deep to this posting except perhaps the basic truth that I should never judge anyone too quickly because I always find out that my initial judgment is wrong and that I end up often discovering the truth behind another person's perspective. In this case, I judged my Seattle friends for wearing a fleece every day...
If I had a fleece back in the Princeton Seminary days, then I would be wearing one too...
2 comments:
It's also one of the few fabrics you can wear right next to your skin and it will actually insulate you from wet & cold, like wool and unlike cotton, which when wet, stays wet and makes you colder. Fleece wicks away the moisture. It's particularly great for whitewater rafting - which you've gotta do, now that you're up in the mountains!
In fact, long range goal for MVPC: Outdoor Men's Ministry - requiring Jeff to become trained as a raft guide. I promise, you'd LOVE it!
Now you have to go to REI and buy a Nalgene bottle and grow a goatee and you will officially be a Washingtonian (state).
It is good to have you out here in the far west. Let's have lunch sometime in the near future.
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