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| E Rice Street, pre-dawn |
Owatonna snowfall totals (just a few):
December 9th, 5" on Brett's birthday
February 22nd, 6" on Ryott's birthday
March 5th, 9" Winter Storm Saturn
11/12, 12/20, 2/3 we had little more than a dusting,
and today, 3/11, we had another 2 to 6 inches.
Seasonal depression has long since set in for many, and the complaints are rampant. How am I to respond? Sympathy would be dishonest. Comfort has little effect. Time is relative. My truest reaction is jubilant thankfulness! I have waited so long for so much, and we all must learn patience and contentment and steadfastness in our own way. I am learning to still trust God when He says no to what I want most. I mourn and embrace the end of winter like a long and satisfying book, and look eagerly for an epilogue.
Then I remember that there will be a sequel.
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
-Robert Frost
