God of this day and every day,

+when life is dull and bland as one day follows another, 

may any salt in my life bring out the delightful flavor in the life of each person I meet;

+when days turn dark and people are stumbling and bumping into things, 

may any light in my life shine to help others on their way;

+when days are cold and cloudy and all hope is gone, 

may my life somehow mirror yours enough to revive and encourage those around me;

until we come to the time of your peace in all it's wonderful and glory.

This is my prayer today.

And may I be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to live in.

 

And Isaiah (and Gretchen) said - "Fix the damn roads"! 

 

Pancakes, eggs, muffins,

granola, toast, jam, waffles -

     breakfast tomorrow?

 

"choose from" not "one of each" - but which?  And maple syrup? 

WInd blowing light snow

and no reason to go out -

       lazy day for me.

 

Other ideas I was toying with -

+multi car crash in blowing snow on M-28 

+"course hold" due to cloud/fog visibility issues at Olympics 

+"2 6 inch subs for 2 bucks" for 2/6/26. Only not in our location! 

 Thursday Olympics -

Curling plus Big Air Snowboard.

      Big Air Curling?  Nope.

 

Ok, I said some of them would just be dopey! 

Sun climbs above trees,

as moon sinks beneath roof-lines,

      in between - it's me!

 

And a new day dawning. 

Improvement on yesterday's -

   Sky candles twinkle,

    lunar lantern glows to light

        the world's living room. 

 

Now for today - 

   Groundhog Day came, went -

   Still spring does not feel closer.

      Waiting, waiting, wait....... 

Giovanni Bellini, Presentation at the Temple, tempera on panel, c. 1469. 

(Today is  The Feast/Festival of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, also observed as Candlemas - the day when people would bring their candles to the church to have them blessed.  A nice article about it here  https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/holidays/a-light-to-lighten-the-gentiles)

 

Sky-candles twinkle,
full lantern moon glows to light 
      the world's living room.
 

 

 La presentación de Cristo en el templo by Kelly Lattimore