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Last night: “the snowfall looks so nice!”; this morning: “grumble.”

Shovelling keeps us from realizing that humans really shouldn’t live in the cold.

Shovelling as a “fix that fails”: it enables us to keep living here, when here means moving solidified rain from one side of the driveway to the other a dozen times each Winter.

We should just become snowbirds.

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