politics and religion? come on. pieces of cake compared to discussing snow.
no surprise, but my facebook and twitter pages today are full of people having a full-on, vitriolic snowball fight. some of those snowballs sound as though they have rocks buried inside. rocks and maybe worse.
of all the things that separate us, i think weather is the salient one. it beats gender, beats income, beats education, beats do you have ham or turkey on Christmas.
some may like it hot and some may like it cold but nobody wants the other one to have what they like. weather beats every Christian principle there is, every time.
i did something after work that i hope will help bridge the divide. i stopped at the store and bought some potato salad from the deli. then i picked up some ground beef, some hamburger buns, and a quart of ice cream. schlepped the whole thing over to my neighbor who loves ohio in july and who i knew would be in a bag - and he was (is) - over today's snowfall. i handed him the food and said, here, have a summer picnic indoors.
the look on his face when i handed him the stuff restored my belief in humanity's ability to get along.
