Friday, December 19, 2008

In appreciation of precipitation

Georgetown University: Copley Hall

Let it snow!

There may be nothing better than water turning into strange forms for altering how we see the world around us. Rain, sleet, snow, hail... all of these change the place, and the day. Rain is a license to be late to wherever you're going. Sleet maybe not so much, that's just painful teasing. Hail, depending on diameter, is either absurd fun or death and destruction. There's something so magical about fog, in particular, if not ominous, then tantalizing with mystery and possibility. But snow may beat them all, at least for that first day, and then it turns dirty.

Metaphor for change?

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