We had two days in December that you would call winter. We've had so many 50-degree days, it's really been amazing.

Now is the time of fresh starts
This is the season that makes everything new.
There is a longstanding rumor that Spring is the time
of renewal, but that's only if you ignore the depressing
clutter and din of the season. All that flowering
and budding and birthing--- the messy youthfulness
of Spring actually verges on squalor. Spring is too busy,
too full of itself, too much like a 20-year-old to be the best time for reflection, re-grouping, and starting fresh.
For that you need December. You need to have lived
through the mindless biological imperatives of your life (to bud, and flower, and show off) before you can see that a landscape of new fallen snow is THE REAL YOU.
December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best FRESH START of your life.

December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.

Once again, we're on the short end of the stick.

It would be nice to get something to soak in.

Listen for thunder. It's possible you'll hear some thunder, too.