February Wonder
Can you believe that it's February already? Sometimes it feels like I just celebrated Christmas and my company left to go return to their homes. Do you like February? I do! I like this month so much. I like witnessing the return of light and hearing the birds, yes the birds singing again in the morning. They think maybe it's Spring. Birds are positive thinkers in the world. I like the shortness of February, a tiny bridge of time between January and March. I've been walking with Frodo when the weather permits and while everything is brown, cold, cloudy and gray, the walk feels refreshing and hopeful of time marching on. My mother hated February. During this month she would declare she had "the winter pissies" and I would chuckle. She never liked being cold. She would sit in her rocking chair bundled up in a fluffy robe and fluffy slippers cursing the winter days. More than likely, my extreme enthusiasm for winter and chilliness made her al