It is  supposed to snow tonight.  I can't wait.I love snow. I am  a snow addict.  Of course, I  don't have to drive in it.

I like things to look beautiful, I suppose.  Here in America we don't get enough beauty.  Christmas, I think, is one of the few chances most people have to indulge their sense of the beautiful--it doesn't have to be perfect, in fact, it can be what  a lot of people call tasteless. Or tacky.  But  I love  people's enthusiasm in putting up their Christmas lights and decorating their trees and houses.  The opportunity to express our love of the beautiful, even in mundane ways, is like food for the starving here.  And anyone who believes that "ordinary people"  (there is no  such thing  a an ordinary person) can't appreciate beauty  is a --well, is a snob and a phony.  Maybe that's why there's such revolting art these days---the culturati want to be a closed society.  I think they have  accomplished that.