New
year…new coat of paint.
About
two weeks ago, just before the 2013 New Year’s weekend, on day six of the Earth
Renewal Moon, Philadelphia got snow.
A
lovely, bright, roaring burst of driving snow, just the perfect way to begin
the new calendar and to mark the season of the Earth Renewal Moon.
The
Medicine Wheel totems for this moon? You
got the quartz, the birch and the snow goose…three totems with one thing in
common…the color white.
And, right on schedule, snow. Just before the New Year’s parade? It’s a sign.
2012?
Yesterday’s
news.
Snow is nature’s fresh start…the open page…the blank canvas…turning every
landscape into a playground…
…in
the words of Thoreau, the great revealer…no
escape…all tracks in plain sight…the palimpsest of the previous seasons
finally, ultimately, complete for the year…the last chapter writ…
…and,
I ask, is there any other scene that better evokes the wild wonder of youth
than a snowy morning through a frosted window?
Thanks
to snow, the old becomes new…the old becomes young again.
