First Snow

snowfall

We had our first snowfall this morning.  I wasn’t expecting it so when I walked out into the garden for my morning tea and meditation session, I was both shocked and excited.  I love first snowfalls.  It’s like nature has laid down a fresh coat of white paint on everything and at once I get this feeling of endless possibilities.  Whiteness does that for me.  When I look at a blank canvas, I think of all the possibilities that blank canvas can represents.  When I sit down to write, and I am staring at a blank sheet of white paper, I am terrified and excited – terrified because I don’t know what I am going to write or where my writing will take me, and excited because it can take me anywhere, the infinite possibilities of a blank sheet of paper.

6 Comments

  1. Anndi January 25, 2007 at 1:29 am

    I get my fair share of snow, but it tickles me pink every year. Big fluffy snow flakes falling, catching them with your tongue. Life’s little pleasures…

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  2. Tisha January 25, 2007 at 9:46 am

    I like the fact that the possibilities of a blank sheet of paper are infinite allows me to be creative and you know what it’s also a metaphor for life – much is in our own hands and we have the power to change things.

    Lovely pic Clay!

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  3. Soulcruzer January 25, 2007 at 5:43 pm

    I haven’t caught snowflakes with my tongue in years! Awesome.

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  4. Soulcruzer January 25, 2007 at 5:45 pm

    isn’t there a saying Tisha, something like, life is a blank canvass so splash all the colour you can on it…or something like that.

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  5. Anndi January 25, 2007 at 10:17 pm

    It’s a joy…

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  6. Tisha January 26, 2007 at 10:24 am

    Yeah Clay – Life is a blank canvas, and we are all artists!

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