FIRST SNOW
3 min readJan 12, 2022
Is there anything more delightful than first snow?
Ours arrived, an unassigned holiday inserted into the calendar, in the early morning of Friday January 7. I slept late and woke to a pixelated sky descending over the earth with lazy ease. No traffic noise. No children shuffling to school. My muscles loosened at the generous gift that little — actually nothing — would be expected of anyone today.