Blizzard 2010

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For a week, we had too many snowflakes and not enough sunsets. This blizzard was called Snowpocalypse, Snowmageddon, and Snoverkill. Eventually, it was called SnOMG.

What’s the lesson from four feet of snow? The lesson might be you’ll never have 100% balance. You’ll always have one less sunset than you’d like to have. The lesson might be enjoy what you have. Perhaps the lesson is go with what is.

I don’t know. I’m a poet and not a Zen Buddhist priest although I may play a Zen Buddhist priest on TV.

Since the back of my house faces west and we’re on a hill and nothing blocks the view, we see stunning sunsets. When the dust particles went crazy in Russia, we had stunning sunsets. When nothing happened at all, we had stunning sunsets. I don’t have to do a think to make the sunset happen. I get to be.

I am so fortunate — when not watching a tree crashing towards the kitchen window — to see a sunset that reminds me of one good reason to breathe.