When I’m sitting at my desk, sweating in the subtropics in December or January and I think of snow, I would recall the smell of snowflakes, the texture and the temperature.
Yesterday (after Brisbane – Sydney – Dallas -Toronto) I stood outside my parent’s house in Winnipeg and watched the fat flakes tumble and weave through the naked branches of the maple trees. I took in the cleansing aroma of the snow and I noticed the stillness.
After so many years away from Canada, I’d forgotten about the silence of snow.
If you don’t have to drive in it, if you can make time to stand outside and allow the flakes to land on your hair and gather in your eyelashes, you can absorb the blanket of calm that snow brings.
I want to take a moment away from Christmas preparations and holiday projects, step away from the clatter and noise of the outside world, and let the silence of snow settle inside, so I can rejuvenate for the year ahead.
I’m sending you all a little snow so even if you’re at the beach or the shopping centre or stuck somewhere you’d rather not be, swimming or skiing, missing family and friends or in the middle of family mayhem, you can find some respite, revel in the silence of snow and step towards peace and belonging.
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