We all have likes and dislikes in life.  Just a simple fact about our human nature.

Now for me, “The Cold” is one of my biggest dislikes.  Not the Common Cold.  Those I don’t mind nearly as much as “Being Cold”

Cold weather brings the bad news right to me.  It is not just some fickle dislike.  For instance.  I am not real crazy about Donald Trump, or his hair.  I’m not too fond of people who fake being handicapped to get the parking pass…..  or even the smell of cow manure pits.  No.

My dislike for the cold is much greater.  It is more like my Arch Rival.  The Enemy.  My Bane of Banes.

A curse.  The blight.  An affliction.  Misery. Woe. (I wonder if I’m being clear enough about this….  )

And yet.   I am beginning to see that even with our biggest disappointments in life, our greatest fears, our deepest pains…. sometimes there is something to be learned.  Some thing to see.  Some thing to appreciate.  To treasure.

And on occasion, if we look really hard, we can see the beauty of it.

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius

“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.” – John Westerfeld