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Now is the Time for Moral Strength
These are the times that try a person’s soul
There are times in a person’s life when self-control is difficult to maintain. This week is one of those times.
And I don’t mean the internal struggle that I go through every time Ted Cruz appears onscreen and I want to put my boot through the TV before he starts his snark-whining. As hard as that is, it’s not the worst of my internal struggles.
You see, I live in northern Massachusetts, up in what the meteorologists refer to as the “hills of Worcester County.”
Today the sun is shining and the temperature is approaching 60 degrees. I can smell the thawing earth. The lilacs have little buds just beginning to swell and five robins are bouncing along the grass. There are at least two pileated woodpeckers drumming in the woods behind the house and I even have two tiny crocuses opening up.
Spring! Yay!
I want to get out there and DIG! I want to rake all the dead leaves and pine needles out of the garden beds, put out some compost and get some seeds into the ground!
But I can’t.
Because there is actually still snow on the ground. Slushy, gray piles of icy pellets that just keep hanging on. Like an aging member of Congress, they don’t seem to realize that their time is…
