December 31st, 2004
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Simply incredible
Wednesday we were lucky to have an unexpected snow shower. However, it remained largely unexceptional as it didn’t accumulate beyond half an inch in most places. Thursday I enjoyed glorious clear skies and sun, and rode my bicycle to Tokyo Bay. Today, however, we are not only back to snow, but it is the most gorgeous gently falling snow one could wish for. Hardly any wind, just delicate lace, “falling faintly through the universe” as Joyce says. And to top it all off, it has thus accumulated to at least a full inch blanketing all. Spectacular.
Though I must scrub the floors today, I much more so must go outside now and enjoy the quiet, graceful majesty of nature. Just walking, just quiet, just peace.
“His soul swooned slowly as he hear the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.” – JJ
