Snow patterns from here

 

Different kind of bushes collect snow differently...looking down from my balcony.

If we don't try to make sense of the patterns, the shapes and design are kind of nice.

Even a tiny balcony offers an interesting set of straight lines against curved sidewalks.

My glimpse of Blue Ridge Road (where you might see a yellow line) at least showed me that roads were clear to drive on...which I did a bit later.

I love when snow is captured on the many branches outside my windows...as well as a bit on the grass.

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I have also been thinking of what changes I have experienced as I now live through Post-Trump-Trauma time...not only just having hope that many of the horrible things he did have been reversed...and not only to have his Impeachment Trial in the Senate (which is about to begin as I write this).

I now no longer have to hide from the news, with the daily expectation when watching my news broadcasts that I'd be shocked by yet another something that was absolutely false coming out of his (the orange one's) mouth.

I can enjoy listening to the Press Secretary answering questions with sane answers.

I can also let myself be angry with all those people who believed in him and his tricky manipulations.  For now I'm really pissed that they supported him and made the rest of us live for 4 years with our only hopes being expressed in "persisting" or "resisting" the non-governance that was happening.  I can also know that McConnell will continue to be an irritation for me! But he may perhaps be willing to make deals for the things he wants, and compromise sometimes.

Today's quote

And lest we forget...

"To Donald from John Pavlovitz:

By saying the irresponsible, mean-spirited, ignorant things you’ve said so freely and so frequently, you’ve given other like-minded people license to do the same: unapologetically admitting who they always were but were previously fearful of declaring.

You became the flag they could proudly wave in defiant hatred of so many.

You’ve made bigotry, misogyny, and racism socially acceptable again and that has been a kind of twisted gift because it’s allowed me to really see people; not as they pretend to be on the surface—but in the very depths of their wounded, weaponized hearts.

For years your supporters would tell me that they loved you because you “spoke your mind”. That was never the real story. The truth is, they loved you because you’ve spoken their minds.

You voiced their phantom oppressions, gave credence to their hollow grievances, justified their inherited prejudices, validated their ignorant phobias, and made their fringe ideologies go mainstream.

You normalized their contempt for humanity."

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