apropos of anything

1. Untrodden snow. I have lived in the Sunbelt for most of my life. I have never had to shovel it, never had to drive in it, rarely seen it piled up, sludgy and brown, on the sides of the roads. I’ve never had to dig my car out from underneath it. I am not currently buried in it. Under those circumstances, perhaps it’s cavalier of me to say that snow is beautiful, so I will say this: Snow that has just fallen, that has yet to be stepped on, is beautiful.

2. Options. How lucky I am to be able to choose. Sometimes I think many doors are closed to me, and while that may be true, I still have a plethora choices. In a minute there is time/For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. If I do not dare to disturb the universe, that too is a choice of mine. Maybe I am not ready to reach for the options that are within my grasp, but knowing that they are there is beautiful. And perhaps one day, the mermaids will sing to me also.

Vinegars this nice belong in your salads, not in your drains. Click on the image to go to the original photo on Flickr.

3. Vinegar. It’s a stinky miracle worker.

I have always had an issue with drains and Drano. Y’all know this. Probably far better than you want to, even. And even though the hole in the bathroom ceiling wasn’t caused by Drano, I’ve been looking for alternatives since then, just because.

Heather and Jason suggested I try boiling vinegar, which seemed odd to me, but who am I to question both Heather and Jason? Of course, it works. Expertly. So now, in addition to being a wallpaper remover, a dye remover, and an essential component of salad dressing, vinegar unclogs my drains without adding extra chemicals to my water.

Useful AND environmentally friendly. And it doesn’t even burn my fingers. Beautiful.

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