It is still deep winter here in February in Minnesota. The ground is asleep under a blanket of white. The sap is not yet rising in the trees. The birds are quieter, accept for the occasional woodpecker’s drum. And the light remains soft, even though we gain minutes by the day. There is a stillness in the natural world that’s easy to miss if we’re generally maintaining the same busy routines all year. Our focus has gone elsewhere, now that the major holidays of winter have pas
