January 7: Illumination

Another Monday back in the office, with another week ahead of numbers to juggle, memos to write, meetings to coordinate. The cold feels like it's settled into my bones, rendering me bleak and partly cloudy myself. But as I was driving back from an errand, snowy Mount Battie rose up ahead of me, its radiant presence glowing in the late afternoon sun with an almost ethereal light.

Confronted by such beauty,
the spirit rallies.
At least until darkness.