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Sunday 
14 December 2008
Snow
Here in Bellingham, Washington we have great access to snow. Some say it’s the best of both worlds. Mild winters here in town and just an hour’s drive to great cross-country and downhill terrain.
For me, however, I get sad when we occasionally get some snow but it doesn’t stick because it’s not cold enough, or it turns to rain and the snow is washed away.
So when the temperature dropped into the twenties yesterday and the snow started coming down hard last night and I saw a forecast like this this morning:
I’m a happy camper.
To wake up to a neighborhood covered in that pristine, white powder that brings such quiet and tranquility, to bundle up with my wife and 11-year old son to head out with the sleds, to tear down a hill with the snow flying up in my face and the screams of delight from the playing children all around me, to return home after hours running up the hill and sledding down to enjoy a nice hot cocoa…
…well, it’s the kind of day that makes me happy on such a profound level, a happiness that merges with my newfound hope for the future, a future free from the deadly incompetent tyranny of the last eight years. It’s the kind of day that makes me feel so good that I’m not bothered by the usual annoyances we all face each day, not even when I check in here at the blog and see that we’re still being visited by rightwingnuts whom, incredibly, seem as wedded to their thoroughly disastrous political party as they did during the election.
I’ve gotten really angry at these rightwingnuts in the past. Today I just feel tremendously sorry for them…for a little while…and then I look out the window at my son packing up a supply of snowballs to pelt me with later and a huge smile is back on my face.
Oh the weather outside is frightful,
But the fire is so delightful,
And since we’ve no place to go,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
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snow! Yes, even down here in the Willamette Valley we have snow on the ground. Frozen there actually, but there!
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Gonzo,
I am truly glad for you that ignorance is bliss. But don’t feel sorry for those of us who can actually discuss politics beyond your simple slogans. We enjoy being educated about the subjects we discuss.
Have a great snow day!
StevieJ