{"id":1601,"date":"2007-12-07T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T08:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/07\/snow-toto-we\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T08:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T08:34:00","slug":"snow-toto-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/07\/snow-toto-we\/","title":{"rendered":"SNOW — TOTO WE AREN’T IN LA ANY MORE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Autumn_2007_2\"<\/a>
\nLast week I took you to see this tree outside my office.  It was just lovely.  Then I went to LA and, as this storm was preparing to arrive, worked outside by the pool<\/a> all afternoon.  Never have I been so aware of the good side of the left coast – where I lived so unhappily but have come to appreciate.<\/p>\n

 <\/a>
\"Snow_1107_road_2\"<\/a>Back home tonight, which is Wednesday, it looks like this.  I seem to be on a real tear about seasons and changes.  I left a fiery display of falling leaves and returned just in time to welcome the magical silence that is my favorite part of an all-day snowfall.<\/p>\n

I’m posting this on Friday, just before Shabbat.  Ending the week.
\nThanking God.  Wishing I knew an angel named Earl. Remembering snowy
\nnight time walks down Broadway with my kids.  And snow days.  And ski
\nlifts.<\/p>\n

And back again to that old circle thing<\/a>.  There isn’t much in life that doesn’t come in cycles, and if you observe the Sabbath, it begins at 4:30 in the depth of winter and 9:30 at the height of summer.  Jewish holidays too are built around harvest and planting, the moon and its cycles; it’s far more connected to the earth and its processes than I ever understood until we began living this observant life.  I wonder sometimes if, given my pleasure in the cycles and their passage, that pleasure isn’t yet another reason we ended up here. <\/p>\n

Shabbat Shalom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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