Friday, February 29, 2008
The gentle rays of the morning sun stream in through the blinds, and it's only 630am in the morning. The days are getting longer, and before we know it, it would be time for daylight savings.
As winter melts into inexistence, Earth enters into yet another orbit around the sun. It's mind boggling how this passage from spring to winter, so seemingly predictable, can vary so much, so much that we are actually caught unprepared.
This winter, the 77.3 inches of snowfall (as of 6 Feb) in Madison broke the record set in 1978-79. And we almost did not have enough gravel and salt for salting the roads and the pavements. Countries like China weren't spared from the heavy snowfall too. Millions of people could not make it back for their lunar new year reunion because of the snow...
Anyway, I was just thinking about how much had happened in the past 5 years... the tsunami that wrecked beach resorts in asia, Hurricane Katrina that destroyed New Orleans... Just when we thought we have control over it all, Mother Nature shows us that she is capable of WAY more. She never fails to remind me how we can never be in control... however hard we try. That's why the best laid plans often go awry... It took a decade or so to establish tourist resorts and poof... it gets wiped out in just a matter of hours. Hah. how small and hapless we stand, and how insignificant our efforts are in the grand scheme of things.
The quirks of Mother Nature... and just for the record, the earth is actually closest to the sun in the deep of winter here in Madison. How paradoxical!
But oh well, life is always like that...
and i know that this post is just a random assortment of stuff... that sounds disconnected from each other, and not relevant to the title of the post in any sense... because i'm just writing whatever comes to mind.
anyhow, spring beckons!
let's hope that the year ahead would be a better one for us.
The snow, and the ice, is starting to melt:)
and i am loving every moment of it!