Friday Five: Ground Hog Day lessons
Rev Pat Raube, over at the RevGals, offers this Friday Five on Ground Hog day: She talks about how this movie changed her perspective on the holiday, a day which the meterologist on a local channel described as the only holiday honoring winter....So, here goes: 1. The Holiday: On a scale of 1-5 (with 1 representing, "Hey! Stop hating on the most awesome season ever!" and 5 representing, "Green. NOW."), how much are you hankering for spring? And what is, to you, a true sign that it is actually on its way? I don't think of it as a holiday, per se. It's more like an occasion, an opportunity to be publicly silly as we consider whether or not a groundhog can predict the duration of winter. No doubt I do believe that the animal world has better sense of this than we do, but still this is just silliness. And, I'm okay with that . Now, regarding spring. I'm not quite ready for it to return, considering we are actually having a REAL wi...