Vast-ness

It's cold.  No, it's REALLY cold.  Below zero cold.  Teens below zero cold.  With wind.  Which makes it feel even colder.

Extreme weather excites me.  It makes me know that I am so, so small.  It shows me that there's a vastness to it all that I will never understand.

So I be in it.  I feel it numb my fingers.  I feel it crackle inside my face.  I feel the tingle of the cold on my thighs.  I feel the ache of it in my feet inside my boots.  I feel it's instant intense compression simultaneous explosion in my lungs.  And I know it is powerful.  And so, so big.  And in it, I am so, so small.

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