Just past dawn, I went outside into the silence of falling snow. Suddenly, I realized how fresh snow fall changes the order of things. Usually, I turn inward to seek stillness. I sit down on my meditation cushion in a secluded corner. When it snows, I am drawn outside into the world, seeking a greater […]
There is a gap in the cold. Tomorrow the Ice Age returns, but today I’m going walking. I once read that Thoreaux liked to walk three hours a day to feel balanced and connected to life. I may not be out three hours but I will take a good long walk. I am such a […]
Another blizzard visited us during the night. It is early morning, and I am in the silence of the snow. Nothing is moving. I am looking out the window at snow-covered pine trees remembering that one winter in my home town in Northern New York, the drifts were so high, we could step up onto […]
Greetings! It’s snowing again in the greater New York area. I just came in from walking around the lake. I wonder where the ducks and swans go when the lake freezes over? I see people ice fishing sometimes, though not today. The New York Times reported that Russians from Brooklyn like to drive up here […]
