Winter
From Thomas Springer: "Why do we fear and even demonize normal winter weather? We live in heated houses with semi-heated garages. We drive heated sports utility vehicles with heated steering wheels, heated seats and even heated side mirrors. We can purchase -- at K-Mart prices -- warm and waterproof coats, boots, gloves and garments of all description. After 50,000 years, the human race has come in from the cold in a big way...We no longer realize [winter's] physical, psychological and spiritual values. We no longer appreciate its age-old function as a time of rest and reflection, woven between the cycle of seasons. There's no winter solstice in cyberspace, so it's easy to forget that all living things need time for regeneration."
Meanwhile, Garrison Keillor blames the weather for cold-heartedness: "We Lutherans in Minnesota are not a very forgiving people. And I think it's because we were taught to suck it up, to be strong, to endure winter. We'd camp in 35 below-zero weather, our scoutmaster watching us from his car, while we tried to put up tents in ground too hard to penetrate..." Scoutmaster watching from the car. Keillor kills me.
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