Friday, December 19, 2008

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

There is something truly wonderful about a New England snowstorm: pedestrians once again rule the streets, and there's a remarkable spirit of cooperation and cohesion as neighbors help dig each other's cars out of the snow and parents set up phone trees to notify other parents of school closures... and of course the pleasure of being inside a warm and cozy place, perhaps by a fire, as the wind-whipped snow zigs and zags about, what Emerson called being "enclosed in a tumultuous privacy of storm."