Wallace Stevens<\/a><\/p>\n\nOne must have a mind of winter\nTo regard the frost and the boughs\nOf the pine-trees crusted with snow;\n<\/p>\n
\nAnd have been cold a long time\nTo behold the junipers shagged with ice,\nThe spruces rough in the distant glitter\n<\/p>\n
\nOf the January sun; and not to think\nOf any misery in the sound of the wind,\nIn the sound of a few leaves,\n<\/p>\n
\nWhich is the sound of the land\nFull of the same wind\nThat is blowing in the same bare place\n<\/p>\n
\nFor the listener, who listens in the snow,\nAnd, nothing himself, beholds\nNothing that is not there and the nothing that is.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We haven’t had winter for years now. A few cold days here and there. A snow storm now and then. Highs in the 40’s predicted here all week, the first full week of February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I look at my firewood and I have well over half of what I cut for this year left, and we probably only have a handful of days left this year when we’ll want a fire to ward off the “Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is .” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Man-made global warming? Normal variations over a geological timescale?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seems insane to me to believe we could burn fossil fuels accumulated over millions of years in a century and have no consequences.<\/p>\n
\nBut whatever the reason, it seems we no longer need, at least here in northern Indiana, a mind of winter.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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