A Blizzard Under Blue Sky Summary

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“A Blizzard under Blue Sky” by Pam Houston is a great article, and I think most of us can relate to it not because of depression but because all of life’s challenges. Nature impacts the human experience in this article because the author was experiencing a great deep depression and she thought the only way to help her depression was to go out winter camping. Although she had picked one of the worst times to go due to the weather being thirty-two below zero she decided to go anyways. During the time, she would admire nature and its beauty as she went on her journey. “There’s nothing quite like the clarity and precision of fresh snow.” This expresses how the author felt, and how calming nature can make you feel. Although she really didn’t believe

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