Ground Hog's Day 2014

Ground Hog's Day marks the middle day of winter, "The Dead of Winter," after the dying season of autumn and prior to the "rebirth of spring." Death only appears to rule in these dark days. In just 6 weeks new sap will rise in old trees, and life will again reinvigorate itself. New innovations emerge; new energy flows into old limbs. Wintry death is an illusion, masking re-creation beneath the frozen ground. This season should be called "transformation," because new green shoots will soon emerge from the soil, giving birth to new flowers, scents and unimagined renewal. Winter is not the time of despair; it's the time of expectation for rebirth. Just 6 more weeks until life sprouts both reborn and yet different. Such is the way of the world.