snow

Even as I raised my voice to settle the girls today, telling them to sit down and stop staring out the window ("It's just snow, girls!"), I found myself gazing at the big, heavy, wet snowflakes, mesmerized. Snow is joyful, snow is peaceful, snow makes us slow down even if we don't want have time to be slow. A blanket of snow makes the world quieter, more serene. In that slowness, in that quiet, we are invited to be quiet and still ourselves, listening to what we can't usually hear.