We had our first real snow today. A lot of people complain about winter, but I secretly revel in it. There’s a certain antiseptic beauty to winter, a starkness, a sterility, the teeming multitudes of nature silenced and stopped, that makes me glory in living.Â
Unlike in warmer climes or times home isn’t just a place to keep your stuff and rest your head, it’s a precious island of life and warmth in a sea of cold uncaring death.
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To call it "cold, uncaring death" seems a bit harsh. I know I have a yard full of elk and deer that seem to handle the snow fairly well. But I agree with your central point, our house is not just a docking station, it’s a bubble of civilization and comfort in a world that can still be wild and dangerous.
Of course right now that bubble is a bit punctured since our heater went out Friday night. We have a repair guy downstairs working on it right now. The only heat we have in the house at the moment is our wood stove in the living room.
That really gives one an appreciation for how people lived before central heating. You definitely have to make some adjustments in your lifestyle when your only heat is in one corner of one floor of a two story house…
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Are you "secretly reveling" in anything when you write about it on a blog as widely read as this one?
I keep hoping that we get enough snow this season that we can get more dogsledding in. Last year we only got to go out twice.
Lovely writing and thoughts, Mr. Price.
Home.
Personally, I’ve always liked deserts for the same reason. There’s nothing like backpacking into a desert and sleeping under the zillions of stars that you can only see in the perfect clarity of ultra-dry, still air (which you also get in high mountains, which I also like).Â
Spend a few nights in the desert, and you’ll see why so many religions started in the desert.
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Spend a few nights in the desert, and you’ll see why so many religions started in the desert.
Very true.
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