The Snows Of Disbelief The Fiction Of Our Times

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Have you ever been walking down the street and suddenly got a hunch to walk to the other side of the street or turn into a store or speed up your walking speed? Have you ever met somebody and instantly liked them or instantly mistrusted them - not based on anything in particular other than your gut feeling?

Have you ever taken a photograph or viewed a photograph taken of ordinary people or scenes and seen orbs of light or translucent people in the background of the picture once it was developed? How do we know that when a stranger appears at the perfect time to show us the way when we're lost or to help us in times of danger, that we are not actually seeing an angel or ghost or deceased loved one or agent of God making an appearance to help us in our time of need?




I sat and waited. It was all I could do. The snow slowly covered the car and I sat with Ernest Hemingway's bed on the side of a road. That weekend the worst blizzard in twenty years hit the Midwest. Fifteen people died and there was a hundred traffic pile up on the expressway. Indiana was declared a disaster area and Chicago nearly had to shut down. It took me two days to get home.

Because you don't want to have to pay any more for your insurance coverage than you absolutely have to. Because road construction is a fact of life, and the last thing you want is to become a victim. Because you deserve better than to pay through the nose for an accident that isn't really your fault. There are click here of reasons why, but they all boil down to the same irrefutable fact-anything you do to keep your auto insurance as low as possible can only be of the good.

In the other direction there was no traffic at all. Logic dictated that there must have been a bad accident there which had closed down the highway altogether in that direction. A few minutes later and we watched a snow plow make a path for the ambulance on the Reno-bound side of the highway. Whoever had been hurt was now headed for the hospital. We were grateful for that. More calls home.

So many people try to rationalize away those odd rather unexplainable happenings. If you remain vigilant, you may realize that there is so much more to this world than we know.

By the time Brittany and Heather had cleared their possessions out of their dorms and loaded them into the SUV--including lacrosse sticks, snowboard, two computers, other paraphernalia and at least 100 pounds of dirty laundry each--we were ready to head out of town. The snow was sticking and the roads were covered and slippery.