Office deserted...

Outside the snow falls without respite! There is no other topic of conversation on the street. "How did you get here?" "How will you get home?"

Just ten minutes ago there were five people working here. Now they have gone out into the wintry blast! Some for their lunch. Others to go home and batten down the hatches. Me? I MUST take a snowless blip! Just for the sake of sanity.

Our lives are changed, and the simplest tasks need a different set of plans to allow them to happen. But I can?t help thinking that the readjustments are healthy ones for us. We learn when nature changes the picture! Thoreau thought so.

After a still winter night I awoke with the impression that some question had been put to me, which I had been endeavoring in vain to answer in my sleep, as what- how- when- where? But there was dawning Nature, in whom all creatures live, looking in at my broad windows with serene and satisfied face, and no question on her lips. I awoke to an answered question, to Nature and daylight. The snow lying deep on the earth dotted with young pines, and the very slope of the hill on which my house is placed, seemed to say, Forward! Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution. (Walden)