Another snow storm

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climate change, postaday2013, shovel, snow, snow cancelation

Today my exercise class was cancelled because we had another snow storm. We got a solid eight inches during last night, what is weird is that tomorrow will be warm, about 45 degrees fahrenheit. The issue now with the snow isn’t really the shoveling, it is where to put snow. The driveway is getting narrower each time it snows, making it a little problematic when you share a driveway with your next door neighbor. I took pictures of the snow, not just to show how much we got from the storm, but also because the snow had a blue tinge to it, as if the water was really trying to show itself. The snow was heavy and it started melting just this afternoon, so the blue reflection within the snow made me think that the water was trying to show itself to me.

I hope that winter will soon be done, didn’t anyone tell Mother Nature that the groundhog decided that Spring was coming? I really think that these two should communicate better. When the groundhog says Spring is coming, I think that Mother Nature should accommodate him and us as well.

White lies

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Easter Bunny, fantasy, postaday2013, tooth fairy, white lies

The Tooth Fairy (or Easter Bunny, or Santa Claus . . .): a fun and harmless fiction, or a pointless justification for lying to children?

As a child, I loved believing in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy and when I found out that it was my parents, I was immensely disappointed, not with my parents but with the world. The world became a little sadder that day because I had to realize that there didn’t exist a benevolent being who just wanted to make me happy and show me that I was special for just a few different days in the year. I wouldn’t trade the fun and the anticipation of all those years of believing in them for all the tea in China even if, at the end it yielded such disappointment.

I think that it is a rite of passage for most and it embodies the childhood innocence that we try to keep alive for as long as possible. Adulthood comes way too quickly and it seems way too early for some, I say that if you can keep the fantasy or the illusion going, do so, you will be providing your child with wonderful memories and feelings of being special to another being that is shared with other children everywhere.