Snow Day Joy

Snow-days are some of my fondest memories from early life and I will always romanticize the pure freedom of a snow day.

I think the beauty is in the unplanned nature of it. We all have weekends and vacations, but because we can see them coming, we often plan stuff to fill the space. The spontaneity of the world being shut down by a snow storm is beautiful because it FORCES us to just do less for a day. And we need to be forced. In this hyper productive culture we are ALWAYS trying to get ahead in our school work, career, or something else.

I guess not everyone is as happy as I am when the snow falls. Cities get shut down, and lots of very important infrastructure can take a beating. People die to! Interesting how the news will say "Blizzard Jonas killed 30 people over the weekend"...I wonder how the storm killed them? Like if a homeless person froze to death, one could blame it on the blizzard, or one could blame the lack of homeless shelters, or the myth that has become America's "meritocracy".

Gem from 2010, friend for almost 14 years, Sebastian Wilbern, in the background

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/25/nyregion/east-coast-blizzard-2016.html?_r=0

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