I secretly welcome ice and snow that leave me housebound as much as I mischievously entertain the fantasy of purchasing a random air ticket to an unplanned destination and traveling without even a carry-on to tie me down. I know that the sweetness and beauty in any tiny thing at all is to be savored. Goodness is more clearly good, evil more blatantly evil. Silence is more golden. Danger is more risky.
Health is the greater gift.
Kindness is the better part of love. Intimacy is more necessary. Memories are more cherished. Decisions are less complicated. Simple choices can be made quickly with no emotional stakes in the consequences.