Seventy 'Til Spring

70 more days

10 more weeks

Just 10 more Mondays

Then spring breaks through

I’m done with other counting and countdowns:

·      C19 cases

·      Election Day, Runoff Election Day, Inauguration Day

·      Virtual assemblies by the hundreds: business meetings, family gatherings, less-than-happy hours

·      Even tracking the number of months, weeks, hours until blessed vaccination

Only one day counts now

The start of the first 2021 solstice will be one for the history books

Time’s relentless forward march forging a welcome milestone

Bringing with it new beginnings, new opportunities

A breath of fresh air as we journey back outside and – dare I say it? – begin to congregate safely again, to re-connect face-to-face as a community

How far we’ll have come by then

Since our annual blooming rite of passage last year

When most in North America were merely one week in

Blissfully unaware of the long haul that would follow

Of the isolating, emotionally twisty road ahead

Seventy more days and nights

‘Til the promise of a new era arrives