And... more snow.

SNOWWDAAYY. Well, not quite. A lot of students had class today, but I happened to be one of the lucky few who got class canceled for the day and slept until 1. Beautiful.

On the topic of beauty, I can't remember ever seeing a snow like this. It's literally been a 24-hour blizzard. Blizzard is the word the weather forecast used. And they weren't lying. Everything is white and so gorgeous. Emily and I went romping around in the Crum woods as soon as I got up. I took some video footage, we made a snowman in the middle of a clearing, and basically just walked in awe. I actually don't really understand it. Supposedly it's supposed to keep snowing up until 2 am so we'll see what that does for class tomorrow. I've got a bunch of stuff coming up school-wise so I'm sure my profs will want to have class.

What else, what else. I forgot to tell you about the ceremony we... took part in? enacted? celebrated? Anyway, it's called the Council of All Beings, and it's a "re-earthing" ritual. Our class walked single file out of the classroom and through the Crum woods into an open clearing. The whole walk was in silence. We were to take some part of nature that we saw, a leaf, a tree, an owl, and become that something. Think the thoughts of that something. If they could talk about the human-inflicted destruction of themselves, what would they say? We formed a circle and stood looking around for what seemed like an hour. No one spoke. But when someone felt "moved" they were to start with "I am ____" and talk as that thing about the destruction by humans. When the person was done speaking the whole group replied, "We hear you ____." It was all very interesting. I was a vine.

Officially think Swat is a loony bin? Probably pretty accurate.

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