'SNO JOKE

       What a difference a week and a few hundred miles can make.
Last Saturday at this hour, we were touring Miami, Florida, and the day was warm. Now, we are back home and it is 'snowing like crazy'.  My kind of snow...beautiful while falling, not too much of it predicted and it likely will be gone within 36-48 hours...not like what happened in the northeastern part of the US last week.  Nor the kind that my daughter's family is experiencing in Southern Germany as per the photographs she sends.
    My great surprise was  the absolute delight that I experienced when it began this morning, the disappointment when it stopped after minimal accumulation, and now, wow !, it has begun again.  Watching it fall . . .well, I am regressing to a much younger age.  Other than that frigid Winter in Boston many years ago, I have never lived where snow was an extended disruption.  Occasionally, enough for a small snowman, for the making of 'snow cream', a snowball fight,  a few days out of school, etc. (Re:snow cream, Our State magazine [North Carolina] had a cover story about that delicacy a month or so ago, if you can access that.) No doubt, that limited exposure gives me an entirely different perspective and outlook than someone with a less romanticized experience.
    A family reunion for our extended family has been planned for this evening and a cousin sent an e mail a few minutes ago saying that it was still a 'go'.  Maybe I am getting super cautious at this time in life, or maybe it is the memory of doing a 360* turn on a snowy road almost   30 years ago, but we plan to hunker down and enjoy the view from the inside looking out.
     When I was in my Residency to be a therapist, our Supervisor often noted the positive effect of "regression in the service of the Ego", an opportunity to reintegrate our "Self".  Well, I am enjoying this brief "Regression".  
   Let it snow ! 
       Satchel