"I'm glad for that, too. Your porch, well it was like when I'm coming home after a long exploration, and the tunnel was dark and maybe I'm a little beaten up, but there's light at the end, the glow of the lamps my friends lit, and I know it'll be alright there.

"That's kinda what seeing those," and he pointed at a lamp, "through the snow felt like. I knew someone was here. Maybe at the time I didn't have any plans for getting inside, but 'someone here' means warmth. And that's why I came up."