Lying on my back, a foot deep in snow, I looked up at the blue sky. The wall of snow, around me, felt like a chasm. All I could hear were two birds fluttering among the dry pine tree branches. Time stood still, just for me. My heart felt so heavy that I was suffocating. I was all alone underneath the bright blue sky, a perfect moment frozen in time. I have tried hard to …showed first 75 words of 877 total…

…showed last 75 words of 877 total…happy to have found a moment of my own, a moment that I could recreate. Aldous Huxley, a British author, said in his Ninth Philosopher's Song:(The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations is licensed from Columbia University Press. Copyright © 1993, 1995 by Columbia University Press) Beauty for some provides escape, Who gain a happiness in eyeing The gorgeous buttocks of the ape Or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. I found my escape in the beauty of the Horseshoe Falls.