Today it snowed in Starkville, MS. When not digging a path out of my email Inbox due to the University being closed (blissfully, mercifully) for two weeks, I’d wonder at the white bits of fluff swirling past my window. Snowflakes are impervious to embarrassment or self-consciousness, so watching them is never a problem. People watching can be. For example, while in the Los Angeles International Airport on Christmas Day, my 16 year old stepdaughter’s eyes were as big as, say, 767 tires. Not only was her amazement at the glorious diversity of the general public visible, sometimes it …

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