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Quote #1222 - #SnowDay
26 Jan, 2026
SNOW DAY
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.."
Anne Bradstreet
"Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired long-awaited Spring."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When there is a snowstorm and we are in a house, I feel like part of the snowstorm, in it, wind and snow all around us, whipping the house about as the walls creak and groan.
When we are in an apartment 14 floors up, I feel so removed from the earth, and the snow that is engulfing it.
So privileged.
Above it all.
Just as I feel uneasily removed from Minnesota, from the protests and the murders, from the ICE detentions, the deportations, the prisons, the concentration camps--no less aware, no less accountable, no less responsible, just less immediately directly affected by the horrors.
We march to know we are a part of what is happening, to take a stand with the powers that be, but also to take a stand within ourselves.
We make calls, we talk to each other to take responsibility, to hold ourselves accountable.
We write to know how immediate, direct, and profound the affect is and will continue to be, and to proclaim it to the powers that currently be in our disentegrating democracy.
Will the marching, the calls, the talking, the writing, bring the desperately-needed spring?
Shellen Lubin
January 26, 2026
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