The Quiet Fall of Snow...

I got my wish.  Woke up to my world blanketed in snow.  About 4 inches.  Everything is quiet and still.  Very happy to get to participate in the snow.  Both rain and snow give me permission to slow down, to be loungey and lazy.  To stall the motor that drives me, propels me forward all the time.  Snow and rain give me permission to ease up and release my tendency to drive hard and fast.

Aging is doing this also...but I like the effect of snow and rain better than aging...not a huge fan of aging as it turns out.

It is supposed to snow all morning and into the afternoon...and I love that I get to just be still and quiet to match snow’s efforts and follow the example.  It is Colorado so the kids weren’t even delayed for school...a school delay or cancellation requiring way more snow than what we got.  I felt badly for the kids, seems like any amount of snow should engender a snow day.

I remember being a kid and being glued to the TV set to watch the ticker at the bottom of the screen to see if school was delayed or cancelled.  My whole life was held in the balance of the Fairfax County School Board’s decision.  And then you finally saw the cancellation, it was like being released from prison.  I guess I can’t say that, I have never been incarcerated so I guess I can’t assume what that might feel like.  But I know the snow day felt amazing.  So wonderful to be released from the vicissitudes of daily life and given a day that instead focused on family, friends and fun.  

I don’t want to live where it snows.  But I do love visiting it.  And I always feel like I am blessed when I travel to snowy locations and the heavens release snow onto me.  It is never guaranteed.  So I always feel like I am totally favored when the snow begins to fall and I am there to witness it!

So I shall take it easy today.  I will walk in the snow and appreciate how it shushes the world.  The world needs to be quiet for a minute. Tells all of us that whatever we have planned is not more important than taking extra time, for going back to bed, for being present, for snuggling in and down and allowing the weather to be cold and snowy.

Not very often, but just for today...and I am grateful.