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Sometimes You Need a Day to Do Nothing
A “wasted” day can end up being the most important of all
It’s dark out this morning, but it’s not completely black.
I can see rooftops of white — the freshly fallen snow that arrived in a blizzard yesterday.
It started with rain, which turned to wet snow, which turned into the biggest snowflakes I’d ever seen! They were swirling around, falling in every direction, coming straight for me!
I leaned on the windowsill overlooking the parking lot for probably ten minutes yesterday afternoon, just watching the snow come down. It was mesmerizing. Some of the flakes made a beeline directly for my face, only to hit the glass and melt, or slide down towards the sill.
Everything became so quiet and still. It was beautiful — and as we soon found out — the perfect day to stay inside and watch from there.
Having gotten a start on our Christmas shopping, I had a couple more things in mind that I wanted to look for, and we thought we might be able to find them in town.
I got bundled up, put my boots on, and we headed out into the white — only to discover that it was more of a soupy mess out there!
It was beautiful, yes, but it sure wasn’t much fun to walk through! The wet snow…
