It is fiercely cold here today. When I got up this morning, just after sunrise, it was -7F and dropped to -10F before starting to warm up. Even with the stronger sun of the last day of February, we have still only reached +7F.
The sky looks so blue and clear but more snow lies ahead, 8-10 inches by late tomorrow. I heard yesterday that we are at 90 inches for the season so far with a good 6 weeks of snowy weather yet ahead.
There is something in this long drawn out move toward spring that keeps my mind turning to the transition of midlife, to the task of moving from the roles and expectations of the first half of life to the call to new life of the second half, the time when we are less bound by role and freer to follow a new path, one set by the movements of our hearts. As I have been reading on this theme and musing about it, I ran across the following --