Snowfur Tm ((free)) -

Disclaimer: No, this is not a sponsored post. I wish it were. I simply needed a word for a feeling, and this one stuck to my brain like a frostflake to a wool mitten. Let me define my terms. Snowfur™ isn’t a product you can buy at a ski resort gift shop. It isn’t an Instagram filter, though you’ll see it there, flattened and pale.

My mother woke me up at 5:00 AM—not for school, but because the power had gone out and she wanted me to see the “silver light.” We stood on the front porch in our flannel pajamas. The entire cul-de-sac was transformed. The street, usually a scar of black asphalt, had become a river of milk. snowfur tm

There is a specific kind of snow that falls only a few times in a lifetime. It isn’t the frantic, sideways sleet that stings your cheeks. It isn’t the wet, heavy slush that soaks through your boots before you reach the mailbox. Disclaimer: No, this is not a sponsored post

So go ahead. Look out the window tonight. If the air is still, if the flakes are fat, if the world goes quiet— Let me define my terms