I completed another orbit around the sun today, and Mother Nature decided a bit of snow was called for. With light flakes flying as we ate breakfast, I popped outside to feel the unseasonal, yet very special, moment. I posted the video to Instagram, here.
Interestingly, it also snowed the day I came into the world, and every May 8th since has been snow-free. Yet today, morning brought flurries to both the city where I was born, Montreal, and the city we now call home, London.
Coincidence? Some kind of meteorological message from a deity? I have no clue, and anyone who claims to know why is, politely, quite wrong.
It was a thing of wonder that just so happened to play out on some quirkily connected points on a bunch of calendars.
It could just have easily happened on any other day, in any other place, for any other birthday boy or girl. Or maybe not on anyone's birthday, but on an ordinary day that needed an injection of the extraordinary.
Because wonder happens all the time. On every day. In any city or place. We just have to be willing to head outside into the cold in our sock-covered feet to experience it.
Today was an extraordinarily special day, then, for many reasons. Yes, the snow. And yes, the birthday thing. But more importantly, yes, the people I've connected with between the two snowy days who have made the life I've built in between them a journey I couldn't have wished for in a dream. I wish everyone could feel as loved as I do right now.
Life's funny that way. Which is why it's as precious as it is.
Thank you all for being part of this journey. Let's get started on that next orbit, shall we?
#ldnont #london #ontario #canada #birthday #weather #wx #google #pixel2 #teampixel #photooftheday #instagood #nofilter #nofilterneeded #lifeinthemargins #family #everything
Interestingly, it also snowed the day I came into the world, and every May 8th since has been snow-free. Yet today, morning brought flurries to both the city where I was born, Montreal, and the city we now call home, London.
Coincidence? Some kind of meteorological message from a deity? I have no clue, and anyone who claims to know why is, politely, quite wrong.
It was a thing of wonder that just so happened to play out on some quirkily connected points on a bunch of calendars.
It could just have easily happened on any other day, in any other place, for any other birthday boy or girl. Or maybe not on anyone's birthday, but on an ordinary day that needed an injection of the extraordinary.
Because wonder happens all the time. On every day. In any city or place. We just have to be willing to head outside into the cold in our sock-covered feet to experience it.
Today was an extraordinarily special day, then, for many reasons. Yes, the snow. And yes, the birthday thing. But more importantly, yes, the people I've connected with between the two snowy days who have made the life I've built in between them a journey I couldn't have wished for in a dream. I wish everyone could feel as loved as I do right now.
Life's funny that way. Which is why it's as precious as it is.
Thank you all for being part of this journey. Let's get started on that next orbit, shall we?
#ldnont #london #ontario #canada #birthday #weather #wx #google #pixel2 #teampixel #photooftheday #instagood #nofilter #nofilterneeded #lifeinthemargins #family #everything
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