There are days when you feel like a cog in the wheel of life...a small part in the grand scheme of things....and then there are other days.....
Today was one of those other days. Mark and I woke up very early (4:30 am!) as he has duty today, which means he will spend 24 hours on the boat. So anyways...we got up early..he to get ready for work, and me to make his breakfast/lunch/dinner/breakfast (remember the 24 hours on the boat part?).....at the ungodly hour of 4:30 am, I cannot, will not, think or see beyond the shadow cast by the light above the stove...so...once food was secured, I somehow found my way back to bed...bumping into things along the way..but back to bed I went... after 20 minutes or so..just as I was getting back to sleep, Mark calls to me to 'come outside and see'....Now...at 4:30 am whatever it is one wants to show me, it had better be close to God himself! I stagger out to the living room...put on Marks now abandoned slippers..and go outside...and as I looked outside...the world stood still....
Now, one might stop right here and say "For crying out loud, it's only SNOW".....but for some reason...maybe I've never lived in a place that can be counted on for a regular snowfall...maybe I still have some aspect of childhood wonderment...whatever....I still catch my breath when I look outside and it is snowy and the snow is coming down.....ever notice how very quiet and still it is when it snows? How clean the world looks? Feels? Ever notice the smell of the air? It SMELLS like snow...like clean water..... anyways...the world is a different place....and all of a sudden...in one moment...I stop feeling like a cog in the wheel...I feel like an Island all to myself...standing on our two and a half acres....unable to see another person (other than those in my own house!)...with the world clean and clear...and white...I feel like I am in a snowglobe....insulated from everything for just a moment in time....and it's a nice feeling..even if just for a day or two...so today...I was in a snowglobe...just the kids and I...living our lives without sense of the rest of the world.......
Tomorrow will be another day...the snow is melting...no more snowglobe...but it sure was nice for a day!

Hugs....
Mark, Jaye and Gang