"Ice Breaker everyone! Here's the prompt: what's your favorite Holiday and why?"

"Halloween because I like to dress up!"

"Valentine's Day for chocolates and flowers!"

"I'll say Fourth of July because I love the boom of the fireworks!"

"And what's your favorite holiday?"

"I like Christmas because I like the lights."

Did you know that snow is a natural insulator? Snow absorbs about 60% of sound. So when you go outside on a late winter night, you'll hear a muffled version of the world that we used to exist in. That's why those nights are the quietest.

Winter. A time for snow boots, scarfs, coats, and little mittens. A time for sweaters and turtlenecks. Time to go through the closet and switch out all those short sleeved shirts with long ones. A time to dress warm.

As the days grow shorter and shorter, the nights getting colder and colder, summer transitions into fall and then fades into winter. And as those orange and fire colored leaves blow away, your days are replaced with a different fire. And now one of those chilly snowy nights is now a night of hot chocolate and stacking wood.

Winter is the most romantic time, a city late at night, walking the streets, stepping all the snow into slush. Jazz music sounds from most corner stores as you cup your mittened hands around another steaming mug of hot chocolate, this time with marshmallows and melted whipped cream. Isn't it the best time to be alive?

And as you drive home from your late city walk, you'll see all those lights. With an extra dusting of snow falling, but then those lights. Oh how surreal those lights are. Yellow and warm, streaking across your vision. And then there's the snow, absorbing it all.

So when the snow melts in the spring, those memories end up as well, melting down into the ground for those daisies to soon pop up later.