Tag: Sabbath & Snow

  • Snow Sabbath: brought to us by #Blizzard

    Snow Sabbath: brought to us by #Blizzard

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    Ruth Everhart

    Like most people on the eastern seaboard, our home is under a 30 inch blanket of snow. I’m grateful for many things: for weather forecasting that allowed people to prepare, for electricity and a working heater, for unlimited sources of things to read and watch: books, YouTube, Netflix streaming, to not feel isolated, even though…

  • Cactus Trapped In Ice, thoughts on Barry Lopez’ “Arctic Dreams”

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    Ruth Everhart

    Last winter I savored a book called?Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez.?I read a few pages each night, shivering under my covers no matter the heat of our furnace. Today the DC region has come to a halt under a blanket of snow. Yesterday I took this picture of our prickly pear cactus, which is trapped…

  • More Snow

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    Ruth Everhart

    Out my window it is swirling white, and I can hear the sound of the wind. This is the third snowstorm in a row, and what’s even more wierder, is that I live in northern Virginia, which normally doesn’t DO snow. But I’m not complaining. It’s lovely, much of the time, and provides some physical…

  • It’s Called Grace: Blizzard of 2009

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    Ruth Everhart

    On the day before the fourth Sunday of Advent, God decided to speed up our holiday celebrations by blanketing us with snow. We were, collectively, forced inside by 20 inches of snow. I’m loving it. Today, all around, church services were cancelled. I was as gleeful as a 3rd grader who wore her pajamas inside-out…