From the other side
I don’t want for a minute to belittle the storm we are having, or make light of the very real danger and difficulty that it poses for many people. It’s been a winter of historic difficulty and trial, that has taxed our resources and infrastructure, not meant to deal with 60+ inches of snow in a season.
But it has been beautiful. Awesome. Transformative.
It lifts me out of my usual way of seeing and makes old things seem new.
It calms and it challenges.
When I went for this walk today I did it full of knowledge and security. I had somewhere warm to come home to. I had food to eat, a bed to sleep in. The cats were waiting for me when I got back, and I even still have electricity.
Tomorrow we’ll start digging out, again. And it will be time to focus back more on things of the world. But today I was glad to be able to walk out into a different one entirely for a while.
February 10, 2010
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Jen · 
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Thank you for sharing your walk. The picture of the chain-link fence is particularly beautiful.
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