Slim Randles' Home Country
The gentle, eternally silent blessing of
winter
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[February 19, 2015]
Somehow
the snow is a little like Christmas. We can expect it. We can listen
to the television weather and expect it. But still, when it comes
it’s like a gift a wonderful unwrapped gift, because it is the
wrapping. |
Doc found it when he turned on the porch light before dawn and
the sheer whiteness of it came to him, and he smiled and let the cup
of coffee warm his hands and the coffee itself warm his insides.
Snow – whether it’s an inch or three feet – tucks us in, he thought.
It’s an act of love, covering each of us equally, as a mother would
do. There should be an ordinance, he thought, smiling, that no one
should be required to get out and drive in it, shovel it, curse it,
until at least the initial magic has passed. Soon enough, we
realize, it will be plowed into muddy strips on our streets and
slushed into the gutters and our shoes will complain and we’ll have
to be careful not to track it in the house. That comes later. Road
closures … they come later, too. When these heavy gray heavens pull
back to reveal the moon and the sun, the cold will come, along with
the threat of ruptured pipes.
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But not now. Right now, in the holiness of early morning, Doc had
the best of the snow. The gentle, eternally silent blessing of
winter.
It should stay that way at least through breakfast, he thought. At
least through breakfast.
[Text from file received from
Slim Randles]
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Ol' Jimmy Dollar
is Slim Randles' first children's book. The book is for kids
K-3rd grades and is even better when parents read it with children.
Ol' Jimmy Dollar makes for sweet dreams and if you have a dog
even better. Available now on Amazon.
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