finally

South-Central Indiana finally saw its first major snow fall today, approximately six inches.
Despite the single digit temperature I went outside at 9 PM to smoke a cigarette and sip on a Bad Elmer's Porter (a beer brewed by local brewery Upland Brewing Co.). The ethereal silence of a snow covered earth is one of those rare instances when one is reminded of what it is to be alive, when the tranquility of the vanishing moment is realized, and the uniqueness of existence tingles the spine. Or as Jeff Mangum once sang, "How strange it is to be anything at all."

mc