This short story by Gaither Stewart seems to fit these times. As our energies swell with the coming spring a bleak winter of the soul seems to strike. Cold winter threatens the tender shoots with wild storms and sudden reversals. Forced back inside – by the pandemic and chaotic weather- we are forced to reflect on many things, and some are as ill-prepared for self-reflection as the world has been for the current pandemic … or the coming collapse of our climate. These reversals at the margins highlight the instability and uncertainty of change and shine a klieg light on our personal turmoils as well. Instability leaves us shaken from our moorings and we must find a new equilibrium before we once again venture into the world, venture into our lives. For clearly we are ill-prepared at this point for the transformed terrain before us.