It has been snowing in New York for two days now--ethereal diamond specks or flat opaque disks, but always so far individual six-armed crystals, each and every flake. This is the view from my back fire escape in Brooklyn. In the distance, the gray-roofed building is an old armory that takes up a whole city block, now a home for men, but being eyed by developers for condos. In the foreground are Tibetan prayer flags that showed up in a mass mailing for a tenant who no longer lives here. The tradition is to pray over the flags, hang them outside, and when the sun, wind, rain and snow have completely worn them away ... your prayers are answered. So, snow is good! And at such a time--Inauguration Day hard by MLK Jr. Day--aren't we all knowing that hopes and dreams do become reality, in their season.
YAAAY for snowy-snow! Here in Ethiopia, we just got a massive downpour in the middle of the dry season...global warming everywhere, eh ;)
Posted by: Monica | January 20, 2009 at 04:44 AM