h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

December morning in Canada... its easy enough at this time of year to picture a landscape of snow and ice...I am of course pre-occupied with the work I must do for the money I must earn for the things I must buy, so I sit and draw, work until the sun rises and I ache like an old man...but out the window here there are fields and fences, distant barns and houses, all of it made beautiful- genuinely, actually, beautiful, by a frosting and glazing of white and diamond ice... ever see Dr Zhivago? the frozen dacha sequence would be reminiscent...mercifully, the biting cold of it is on the other side of the window- regrettably, the magnum opus on the desk before me is nothing but a children's cartoon- but the field out there is dusted with white jewels, blazing white in the morning sun, seen through a window filigreed with new frost...
We may just be meat monkeys, spinning out lifespans, doomed to eventually suffer and die and revert to the carbon from which we rose...but even an elaboration of carbon, careworn and work-weary with an agenda and objectives and obligations, can afford a moment to look out the window and appreciate the view...
Life on Earth, for all its shortcomings, is still, to paraphrase Mr Adams himself, 70 years well spent...
Regardless of your belief system-Merry Xmas!