Ah...Thomas. Everyone is throwing around the S word lately and it makes sense, since it's been the realest winter around here since the early aughts, by my reckoning. There are reports of 250.8 inches total snowfall in the valley this winter which crushes our yearly average of 160.
Will it snow again? Listen for the shapes and strategies in the responses of your friends and neighbors. Appeals to "the Almanac", gut feelings, common sense...? And what is up with our fascination with prediction? Even when it interferes with clear thinking and cripples production I'm drawn to speculate.
This is the tumult of transition. I prefer it to that stretch of darkness we seemed to have had there for a spell. There is a frightening excitement in the air.
Prediction is a flirtation with power over complex systems that we barely comprehend. This is in the same vein of crystals and astrological birthcharts. Right? The allure of prophecy is about control and outright lack of it. Maybe we could make useful predictions if we managed the knowledge appropriately.
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