let it snow
Dec. 13th, 2007 09:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athenagreyWhite is also a color of this season, and we are going to see some today.
One of my life's way stations was in New England, in a small city nestled in the Berkshire hills. I saw a lot of snow in the twenty years I spent there. I used to hate every flake of it. Snow got in the way of things I wanted to do, and snow slowed me down.
I didn't get it. I was working against the snow.
Snow is supposed to slow you down and knock you out of your routine. It teaches you that you are part of this glorious world of nature, and not its master. It teaches you patience.
Later today, I'm going out to play in the snow. I want to feel the flakes melting on my face and maybe I can make a few snowballs, not to throw at you, but to bring indoors and use as tea-light holders for a brief ritual in celebration of the weather.
One of my life's way stations was in New England, in a small city nestled in the Berkshire hills. I saw a lot of snow in the twenty years I spent there. I used to hate every flake of it. Snow got in the way of things I wanted to do, and snow slowed me down.
I didn't get it. I was working against the snow.
Snow is supposed to slow you down and knock you out of your routine. It teaches you that you are part of this glorious world of nature, and not its master. It teaches you patience.
Later today, I'm going out to play in the snow. I want to feel the flakes melting on my face and maybe I can make a few snowballs, not to throw at you, but to bring indoors and use as tea-light holders for a brief ritual in celebration of the weather.
