today i wore my hood.

i made the 11 o'clock news last night. i was outside with friends during the crazy snowstorm. just thought you might wanna know. winter season is here.  i like to blog with music so i popped on my pandora. and that song I blogged about a bit ago came on. "Every Season" by Nichole Nordeman, quite appropriately setting the mood for this entry.  i wish you could hear the violins playing right now. oh wait, you can. just youtube it.

out of the 4 of us, i'm the only one who didn't get real "face time" on tv. i'm sure it's because of my response. Carolina Leids asked me "So, what's your favorite part about being out here?"  And I answered the question that i asked myself in my head what's your favorite part about snow?  So I said, "Well, I love the peacefulness of it all," as I realized that it was really not peaceful at all. there were snowflake chunks blowing in my eyes, my cheeks were freezing, my teeth were hurting from the cold, you could barely hear the person next to you talk when the wind was blowing... so i tried to cover it up. "Well, except for these torrential winds of course... but asides from that..." dunzo dunzooo.

feel the peace :)

but i really feel that way about snow. it doesn't calm me with the therapeutic sound that rain does.  instead, it leaves me with the soothing feeling that everything is going to be ok. i love to just stop walking, look up at the white stars floating down, and listen to the nothingness of the landing of snow. like if you closed your eyes, you'd never know...

this morning, we did what we always do when some sort of natural disaster happens. in fact, it's usually what i do when any sort of disaster hits my life: drive to the beach to check out the waves. the beach had a good 6 inches of snow on it! and driving back, i just noticed that so many more people were just out walking around. also seeing at what piles of snow lay around. or shoveling. or snow blowing. or maybe they were beginning to make their snowmen. either way, they were outside, with others, really paying attention to life.

 

dad and i on the beach.

or maybe they were taking in the peace of it all. like God's peace that he fills us with the Holy Spirit, it transcends all understanding. it doesn't matter if it's snow storming, because i know that he's in control. right now, it's time to take in the beauty around me. cuz there's so much of it.

birdbath.