March

In my part of the country, we're having a regular battle between winter and spring. Last week it hit fifty degrees, which may not sound like much to a southerner but in good old Many-Snow-ta that's quite warm for March. Now we have almost a foot of snow, and more coming tonight. Amazing, isn't it, how all things in the world seem to be lining up. Good vrs. evil and nobody can give the exact same answers as to what is good and what is bad. In the Chronicals of Narnia, the one where the kids return to help Prince Caspian, that's the title by the way Lucy asks, "What would happen if we could no longer know which bears are talking bears and which are the dumb brutes?" That's what I think of when I see the Democrats and the Republicans battling it out in Congress. Both blindly follow party line on the key issues, refusing to see the third option. If there even is a third option. There has to be. The trouble is, our precious English language doesn't offer much other than good or evil. In another book I read once there were three sides to that battle, Good Evil and Valor. Valor switched sides all the time, sometimes good, sometimes evil. We need more Valor in Congress. Hooray for those few independent minded Congressmen and women who are willing to crack the monolithic party gates, keep up the good work. And the valorous work too.