February 3

The temperature is 41F right now and is expected to rise into the high 40s. After last week's deep freeze it feels downright balmy. The snow seems to be melting quickly.

First on the reading list this morning this piece by David Kaiser who says what I have been thinking for sometime: it is time to end the purity crusade and exercise some common sense. Learn from the past and make changes for the future. Don't obliterate the past because you can't learn from what is invisible.

Having just emerged from hibernation (thanks to the arctic cold snap just leaving our area), I found this an interesting article.