For reasons that would not be obvious in say, August, the intersection that our offices (okay, many of our offices) overlook is troublesome when mired in snow. There’s just enough of an incline on Browne as it passes over Main that a few cars that obey the traffic signal and stop at the light when it’s red can’t quite
gather enough momentum to get up the slope that awaits them as Browne gets past Main. Browne is a major connector to Interstate 90, a few blocks south of here, so the intersection is both busy and loaded with motorized expectations. When cars start to slide sideways and backwards, the dramas that unfold tend to bring out both the best and worst in people. Not that we kept score.
This year it seems our intersection is a microcosm for the region and having witnessed this and then done our own share of breaking snow shovels, laying on our backs to affix tire chains, making and then changing (and then re-changing) travel plans, we can only wish that all of you and your loved ones found ways to get where you and they were trying to get. We also hope and pray that in the midst of everything that was hard and perhaps even miserable about this past week, that interludes of grace, and moments of joy intervened against the odds.
Today (December 25th), by the way, is Breean Beggs’s birthday. Also, I hope our founder Jim Sheehan and Mary Alberts won’t mind my sharing their Christmas letter which is not your typical holiday letter but, I think you’ll agree, is touching and inspiring. Thought I should share some pictures. The young boy and the snowman is from a year past. The others are relatively fresh from the Finch Arboretum, on the one day the sun has been out recently.
–tc
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