Anticipation

Anticipation is one of the most squiggley and antsey emotions we can experience. Our minds and bodies seem to vibrate in unison ready for an unknown result. Anticipation involves imagination, expectation and preparation, but you never know if you will need to access either or any of these three.

Anticipation for me this morning concerns the amount of snowfall from the approaching two colliding stormsl and the speed of the wind which can move any snow storm into a blizzard category.

Perhaps the biggest blizzard so far for the East Coast was one in March of 1888. Snow drifts were recorded as high as 50-feet. There were other big storms in 1922, 1978 and in 1993.

I suppose the East Coast and New England are due.

You can’t do it in a blizzard, but if the wind is weak and the air still you might be able to choose one flake, among all the others, and watch it as it settles to the ground. Its individuality seemingly disappearing into a sheet of white, but if you were able to take some tweezers and find that same snowflake and pick it up and extract it from the collective white blanket, it would still have its uniqueness, its individuality hopefully unaltered by the impact with the ground snow.

Snowflakes share only one condition to sustain their individuality. Cold! Without it, their individuation transforms into a unifying drop of water whose only mission then is to join with others and ascend to the source by ultimately descending to the sea and starting all over again as weather.

We humans also drift through life, but we maintain our individuality despite the climate of being. We do have another thing the snowflake does not have. We have conscious awareness and the sentient gift to make individual choices. We can love. We can hate. We can teach. We can create and we can destroy. Wow! What power.

We humans and snowflakes do have something in common.

In the end we too ascend to the Source and start all over again.

We can find profound introspection in all of nature if we go beyond the obvious.

Let it snow and then bring on the rebirth of spring. Quickly.