Right now,
it is snowing; the early flakes of the coming blizzard that will blanket the
world and slow it down, if only for a few hours or a day. I look forward to
this siege, this wrapping up of the world in a tight blanket, one which
encapsulates all things cozy. Wet socks on cold feet that need warming up by
the fire, hot chocolate with leftover Christmas candy canes stuck in at an
angle, pajama pants in the middle of the afternoon after changing from sweaty
shoveling clothes. There is nothing like a snowstorm to make your world feel
smaller, your to do list inescapably shorter, the outside calmer, the air more
still, crisp cold and bright. School is cancelled, children will file in and
out all day, asking me to join in another snowball fight, to find a lost glove
and to make another round of hot chocolate to warm up their souls. It is such a
luxury; this weather, the chance to slow down, breathe the air and watch nature
remind us that we are not in charge, we never were and anything else is an
illusion, so we might as well wrap up and enjoy the show.
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