Happy New Year, Michigan

As you awaken to the new year, notice the new snow. Michigan, in light of global warming you have received a rare gift -- the clarifying perspective of a filthy world covered in cold, fresh white. You have been given time to imagine something better, something new, the possibility of forgiveness and rebirth. You can stop to reconsider our arbitrary imperatives for development and commerce. Sipping morning coffee by a warm fire, you can enjoy nature’s most gentle erasure of human pride and folly. Give thanks and dream of better days.