Large Fierce Mammal

The week just passed saw my part of Nova Scotia receive heavy snowfalls with high winds up to 110 km/h on Monday and overnight well into Tuesday, and another heavy snowfall with 80 km/h gusts on Thursday. We were ploughed out from the first one just before 06:00 Wednesday morning, just in time for the next burial.

Up until now, the Winter has been open and benign, and after a mere week of what would have been normal for late December while I was growing up, I have watched social media lighting up with cries of how sick people are of snow.

G. K. Chesterton wrote that, “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”

And sometimes the experience is a lesson for all concerned.

I invite you to relax on this Provincial holiday and revisit a piece I wrote in the 2013 expression of A Long Winter’s Night titled A Long Winter’s Night 2013 – Day 6: A Winter Lesson in Community. Click the title when you’ve filled your glass or cup/mug.