Hoping for a White Christmas This Year
We got blanketed with 10 inches of snow last week and I loved it - because I love how snow slows us down and brings us to our senses.
When it snows in Pittsburgh, people pour out into the streets. We shovel our sidewalks and driveways, invigorated by the crisp air and some vigorous activity.
We sip hot coffee and catch up with neighbors, enjoying much-needed conversation in this isolated year - conversation made possible by snow.
Even now, snow fills me with the joy I experienced as a boy when school was canceled.
Even now, I head for the sledding slopes to frolic with childlike innocence and laughter for a few hours or more.
I formerly lived in Washington, D.C., and, boy, did I love when it snowed there. I still do.
This is the town where our allegedly smart political and government leaders decide what’s best for the rest of us.
They pass complex laws few legislators read. Regulators interpret those laws to create rules that are often incomprehensible. They issue health guidelines that they say we must follow because they think we’re not smart enough to protect ourselves.
But when a few white flakes fall from the sky, these very same people go into a panic.
D.C. goes into shutdown mode. Government offices are shuttered. Washingtonians, some of whom tell us not to use toilet paper and bottled water because they’re bad for the environment, flock to the store to hoard toilet paper and bottled water.
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