NEVE YEARS AGO, I wrote an editorial entitled "Snow Day."1 At the time that the editorial was written, we were barely three months out from 9/11 and still reeling from that day and the many after-effects, both physical and psychological, emaneting from that event. It seemed that the opportunity to take a breath, if only for a day, to spend quality time with those most important to us was a critical component of day-to-day mental survival as we truly did not know what the next day would bring. As I sit down to write this month's editorial on the day after Christmas, I am actually looking out my windows at snow quietly falling and forming a gentle white ground-cover. I don't know that I have ever had the opportunity to enjoy Christmas decorations against a background of falling snow. A Christmas snow in the Deep South ... truly a Christmas miracle!
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