Winter White will never be “frozen”. Winter White is always flowing…going…and growing…
The only thing “frozen” in her world is the lake where children skate or the crunchy ice crystals of snow on the ground.
She is eternal and free-flowing…gentle and kind and loves to play…
She lives where the winter night’s are magical and even if the fierce North Wind blows…no storms invade the peace of gently falling snow flakes.
She watches over the children whether in the “light of day” or the “cold of night”.
She watches them even as they warm by the fireplace hearth.
She always arrives on December 21st every year to spend the winter months with children who are so dear to her…
Whether it is ice skating on the lake, sledding, or building many different Snowmen or Snow women all winter month’s long…
fun and simple play is the order of the day with Winter White.
Are you ready to enjoy winter?
She would like to share her “Winter Play” with you…so here we go into the snow…
A Winter Night with Winter White in a Small Town
Act 1
Lakes are frozen. Snow lies stacked on evergreen tree branches. Fireplaces are still burning and the smoke rises up into the midnight sky circling as it moves upward.
The smell of pine and brisk, clean air abound all around with short bursts of smoke dotting it’s fragrance in the still night.
Everything looks magical. Houses sit between the trees…winter chill…frosty breeze.
Winter White comes drifting through wearing her beautiful dress of snowflakes. She introduces herself.
“Hello, I am Winter White. I am dressed in the songs of winter days and starlit nights. I surround you with my arms of starry light.
Hello, I am Winter White.
“On this winter night love will find a way to show the children right from wrong and wrong from right.
(Winter White twirls around waving her snowflake wand)
Tonight the children sleep…they dream…they keep thoughts of winter play
Tomorrow the children fly out onto the lake and help a Snowman find his way.
With me, Winter White, you are safe both day and night.
Goodbye for now…I’ll see you next time…under the Dancing Moon.
I will introduce you to more of my winter-time friends. We’ll sing a winter tune.
Now watch me as I swirl and twirl out-of-sight or listen below to…
the Song of Winter White.
P.S. Winter White’s play will continue through the winter months…
so stay tuned and check-in soon for more of Act I, (A Winter Night in a Small Town)
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Background Information
Winter White’s story was first copyrighted in 1990 under the title “Gabrielle’s Snowman”©.
The copyrighted material was entitled “Do You Have Time To Be My Friend”?
Here is the background story:
Born from a true-life tragedy of suicide, but come alive again as hope through a dream, Gabrielle’s Snowman was written in ten minutes at 3:00 a.m. on a winter morning.
The words flowed like a rhythmical energy and the story unfolded about the Snowman who longed to express what was really inside him before he melted away.
The story is about looking deeper than the surface, capturing the present moment, taking time to be someone’s friend who needs us, and learning to express the joy and love that is sometimes hidden inside us.
It was difficult, but the Snowman struggled against his own nature of being unable to talk and caught the children’s attention just as they were turning away.
Even though he had to melt, there will always be more snow and he can come again.
Gabrielle’s Snowman, “Do You Have Time To Be My Friend”? is a story of love and hope for people of all ages.
There are many Snowmen and Snow women in our lives, each with a different name and arriving in different spaces and times.
This particular Snowman is in remembrance of Don, my brother-in-law and the family he left behind when he chose to melt away one day in December 1989.
Children of all ages will understand the magic as inanimate objects in Gabrielle’s Snowman are brought to life…Winter White, Mr. Sun, Old Jack Frost, The Clouds Steaming, and Moon Beaming as she dances across the starlit sky.
There is so much sadness these days with untimely suicides of people of all ages and backgrounds…for those left behind “who took time to be someone’s friend” there is comfort in the message that was given that early Christmas morning in 1989 with the following excerpt from the winter poem:
“The children took the time that day to dance and sing and laugh and play.
Oh, how glad they were that night when they were tucked in bed so tight…
Snowman gave such joy…such light…to fill the darkness of that night.
Next morning as the new light came and children winged towards play again…
Snowman wasn’t there today…His fragile frame had slipped away.
A puddle left in winter snow was all that there was left to show where love had been in all their hearts…only yesterday.
We’ll remember him and know that we had fun in winter snow.
We shared our laughter and our song…Enough to last our whole life long.
“We love you Snowman!” they all said with shouts that rose above their heads. The children laughed and sang and cried over the village towards the sky.
“Oh, won’t you stay just one more day…to be our friend?…Don’t melt away!”
“I’ll come back to you again on some other winter morn. I’ll fall in snowflakes from the sky and you will know me by my smile.
Goodbye for now, I’ll see you soon…underneath the Dancing Moon.
Then together we can say…Let’s be friends this sunny day.
In another place and time…
“OUR SONG WON’T END…OUR DANCE WILL SHINE”
You can read the entire poem “Do You Have Time To Be My Friend?” in a previous G.A.B. posting on
“Winter White is Here”.
Winter White received her Trademark ™ in 2005.
