The world is strangely silent tonight. Despite a main highway, there’s been little traffic, and not just because of the holiday. The world is taking a breath as a winter storm moves in. Snow began falling a little while ago. The back walk, which had been cleared since the last snowfall, now has a quarterContinue reading “On the Silence of Winter”
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On a Winter Night’s Thoughts
Monday night when I left the office, about ten minutes to six, I stepped out of the office building’s glass doors into the early night and there, ahead of me in deep space, was Orion, his mighty belt running from just slightly above the horizon to perhaps a fifth of the way to zenith. TheContinue reading “On a Winter Night’s Thoughts”
On the First Real Snowfall
For reasons that pass beyond understanding, I set my alarm clock last night. The trilling of the clock at six came as an unwelcome interruption to sleep on a Saturday. The damage was done, however, and I went downstairs and put on a pot of coffee. At 6:30, the snow had not yet begun. AContinue reading “On the First Real Snowfall”