Every winter or late fall, when I peek out my window and see the first snows blanketing North Idaho, I call my mom to announce: “It’s snowing, Pee-wee!”
If she sees the snow first, she calls or texts me the Pee-wee line. We’ve done this for years, a throwback to the absolute joy Pee-wee and his friends experience as it snows on the playhouse just in time for Christmas.
Pee-wee Herman forever lives in a cosmos without a supernatural giver of laws. In such an existentialist world, Nietzsche says, we must be like children and invent a world of meaning, lest we be consumed by the great void.
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