… For 5 days and 5 nights this was family. On the third night, the man to the far right came to supper holding a single, rather large dinner plate. All seven of us eating from that single plate, he told us, meant we were now part of his family. What better plate of lamb bones and noodles could be eaten?

This is all well melted by now, but snow in this amounts in Dallas deserves a post -
no matter how late.

… 205, Bon Iver, and a sweater that She gave me was all I needed today.  From the road I watched the fire crawl behind the trees, and a thousand birds scatter out around the glow; falsetto and a green sweater to keep me warm. I remember what it is I am here for today, I remember you and the divine struggle for the day to finally arrive.

Isaiah 43:3,4 reads,

“For I am the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.
I give Egypt as your ransom,
Cush and Seba in exchange for you.
Because you are precious in my eyes,
and honored, and I love you,
I give men in return for you,
peoples in exchange for your life.”

…we won, by the way.