Quote of the Day (Verlyn Klinkenborg, on Wind and ‘Deep Cold’

“If deep cold made a sound, it would be the scissoring and gnashing of a skater’s blades against hard gray ice, or the screeching the snow sets up when you walk across it in the blue light of afternoon. The sound might be the stamping of feet at bus stops and train stations, or the way the almost perfect clarity of the audible world on an icy day is muted by scarves and mufflers pulled up over the face and around the ears. But the true sound of deep cold is the sound of the wind.”— American non-fiction author and newspaper editor Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Rural Life (2002)