Snow Days

It is so quiet when it snows.  It is so quiet, that if you listen real carefully, you can here the snow landing on the snow that has fallen before it.  It is so peaceful.

A lot of people believe that if you cover an alligators head with a bag or a blanket that they go to sleep.  Turns out that this is just a myth, but it does calm them down, lowers their heart rate and minimizes the amount of adrenaline that is released into their bodies.

I think a "blanket" of freshly fallen snow is God's way of calming us down, lowering our heart rate and minimizing the flow of adrenaline into our bodies.

Studies have shown that the holiday season, which we are just coming out of, for a number of reasons, is the time of year when a lot of heart attacks occur.  And also, surprisingly (or not so much, when you think about it) heart attacks occur 20% more on Mondays than any other day of the week.

So to have a Monday without the sounds of school buses, cars horns, phones ringing, text messages and e-mail chimes, but instead the sounds of children laughing, sleds sliding, and hot chocolate percolating, leads me to believe that someone dropped a blanket over the world in a way to say, relax, enjoy, no need to rush today.