Thoughts from nature

The snow is glistering as the sun smiles on it. it feels sacarstic. almost like snide. I behold the relationship between them, and I think everyone has its day over the other.
i had another allegory in my mind, friendship is like colours put together. colours blend and don't. but sometimes they also offer a different spectrum even in the way they blend or not blend. why do they blend, how do they blend and even in blending might there be ways in which their effects are rough.

Did you see the forecast? Wintry mix.

I was walking to class today. The pavement was either sealed in freezing ice or brown snow. The roads were messy with sludge. It looked like an ordeal for most to simply walk to and from class. Even cars and buses were at pains. The sight of the havoc wrecked by the 3 days of snow was simply disgusting.
But the rest was beautiful. Besides the mess. I am not sure how thats possible. The rest of earth seem to melt into the cream of snow. It was a lush fragrance of white. Upon which I felt my body would have sunk into. If not for the thought that crossed my mind...
The roads were smudge into puddles of crush ice mixed with snow, unpure and unwrapped for the fine wintry mixed it was because we had trampled upon it. Our shoes and our cars and our buses. Our- that was what destroyed the scene that fell form heaven. We- that was what wrecked the damage. Me- that was who made the difference.
I looked back and forth and the vast difference became clearer and clearer. The contrast was starked. It sprang upon me from the sides, like thoughts of invisible men... There WE were, and we complained.

Another day, another time...

Some pictures first to make my blog less wordy-








Today, we did not have school.
How did that happen, I don't know.
Yesterday, I did not have school.
Can miracles happen twice? In a row?
It snowed and snowed and snowed. And just when it was going to stop. It snowed.
The exciting thing about here is that there are so many natural extremities and calamities for reasons not to go to school. I remember saying its exciting. But its also school-less. I mean even if people wanted to be stingy about school-hard task masters- they can't becasue of the weather. And God controls the weather. So pray. Pray and pray.

Recently besides the incessant snowing, I got to go to a waterfall and on trek. I really enjoyed myself. I have to thank God this semester seem a lot less stressful. Not because the classes are any less hard. I am still taking about the same number of credit hours. Its the pure mercies of God.

New Year' 09 and a new entry

New year, but is there anything new under the sun? Indeed, time flies but we already knew that.
Everytime I think of time and spaces, landmarks and occassions, I think of the aging factor. I think if I feel more grown. And the truth is, not really.
There is a lot to be thankful for in the year 2008. I think just the sheer enormity of 2008 is baffling. Its like you have a new calender every new year. It is white and clean and empty. And at the end when you look back, it is riddled with things it has balloned with notes and scrap paper and all of the everyday things. And happenings. And you thank God its over.
But I forget, you don't actually stop for there is no day zero. No fullstop, no pause. It was just that moment of thought. That marked something. Thoughts of thankfulness and regret. Thoughts of contemplation and resolution.
And the new year, what, a span of time to be soon over!