And So It Snowed

And so, it snowed and snowed and then, it snowed a little more. After which a Governor in a heated Albanian palace declared a "state of emergency." For someone who was born in Havana and raised in Miami I was a pretty worried. I went out for some food to a grocery store that looked as if it had just been ransacked by a mob in preparation for World War III. I saw the biggest snowman ever it was good 5 feet tall and 5 or 6 wide. It was being shaped by a Mexican father and his two kids who seemed a bit annoyed at the size of their father’s monument to himself. The children complained of cold and fatigued to which he made some incomprehensible Neanderthal like sound and then, said, “keep shoveling”, in Spanish. I felt bad for the children and wondered if this was karma for having supervised slaves in the construction of some Aztec temple centuries ago. My ears got so cold that they kind of hurt. On the bright side my feet were warm because I got to wear my new Columbia, Bugabootoo boots. Great fucking snow kicks! The snow on the ground was untouched and I felt bad about walking on it and leaving my impressions but that’s what life is all about right? So I left my temporary mark on a night I will never forget. Everything was beautiful, clean and unburdened. The snow on everything caught the light like little sponge prisms that illuminated the night with a soft glow. I forgot that I was cold long enough to enjoy the walk and even take a few pictures. I then wondered who the hell was going to shovel up all this magic because you know it’s going to be ugly on Monday when New York goes to work.

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01. Outside my house
02. Footsteps
03. Aztec karma