Well, it looks like the snow has finally ended.
In My Neighborhood This Morning
everything is covered with a thick layer of snow. The depth of the snow is astonishing. This is what the side of our driveway looks like. I cannot see our mailbox from the house because of the height of the snow in our yard.
Thank God for snow blowers and my husband who can still wield our snow blower. I would not be able to shovel all of the heavy wet snow we got.
Where we live, the streets are wide and parking on the street is prohibited at night. So the snow plows can do a good job of clearing the snow most of the time. But yesterday afternoon people were getting stuck on our street as they tried to navigate through the rapidly falling snow. I can’t imagine what it must have been like in Minneapolis and St. Paul with narrower streets in many places and many more cars parked along the streets.
This is what a little over a foot of snow over three days looks like. Can you even imagine how it must have been in Buffalo, NY a few weeks ago when some areas got 6 feet of snow in a single snowstorm?
The sun is out now and the day looks bright and inviting outside. The fresh clean white snow is like a thick blanket of white covering the land.I wonder if the wild creatures, trees, and grasses appreciate the blanket of snow. What do they think about it? Do the trees know how beautiful they are coated with thick white snow?
Dreaming of Warm Places
In my dreams last night I traveled to warmer places, spending time with my dear friend Akiko on the Big Island of Hawaii and to the island of Cyprus in the Mediterranean where I lived with a Greek family when I was 20 years old. I was surprised to remember my strange and delightful dream travels this morning. My dreams reminded me that I really don’t enjoy winter, but that I am here now. And winter is here now.
Although I would love to spend my winter somewhere warm, my husband doesn’t enjoy traveling and my cat Gracie would not do well as a traveler or left with someone else to care for her. So I count blessings of warm shelter, plenty to eat, loving spouse, purring cat, and all of the helpers out there who keep this place running in the depths of winter. And I gaze in wonder at the view out my windows.
The Whole Array
This life isn’t about
slicing off the parts
I don’t like to be
left with those I do.
I choose the whole
array — night and day,
ease and its opposite,
the squeaky wheel
and the grease gun.Push any piece of
life away, and a key
that could have
opened a door is
lost, tossed out with
the trash. I pray for
the courage to receive
the full catastrophe,
however it appears
to me, without
needing to push back.
— Danna Faulds, Limitless
Enjoy the beauty of it all today and always.
May you walk in beauty.
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