Who out there has heard the sound of snow falling?  When I was still a teenager, I would walk for hours in the woods when the snow was falling.  All was quiet, except for my foot steps and the quiet hiss as the snow filtered down thru the trees. As I aged I would make it a point to always take a walk, no mater where I was, during the first snow fall.  When I moved to the Cleveland area I lost track of that.  Then my two youngest kids arrived, and I totally lost contact with my connection to nature.  I became a hollow shell of a man.  I tried to fill that with booze and other assorted things to the detriment of every one around me.  Now that I have sobered up, I realize I MUST!!!!! regain that connection with the earth.  It is the life blood of my existence.  I am the one who chose to numb my self with drugs and booze, but those are no longer an option.  My life is devoted to my Woman, my kids and AA. My spirit will always be connected with the earth, it is up to me to find my way back to that connection.