It’s funny how a natural phenomenon makes us get primal. There is something comforting to me about knowing that food, warmth, and safety are the main directives on everyone in my region’s minds right now; we do not usually have this solidarity of human-ness. Congresspeople and kids living in the projects, peace activists and construction workers—everyone in the DC is forced to slow down (if not completely come to a halt) when nature waves her magic wand in this way. She has the power to do this—the power to force us to rest (which many people seem to not like). The snow will melt and the cherry blossoms will be here in two months, and before we know it we’ll all be bitching about the humidity of summer heaped upon us. But we know the cycle. Why complain? Right now, I’m just pretending we live on Hoth.
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