I sit and feel the heat rise into the room 
	to warm me after the coolness of 
the evening’s sleep. I sit and watch the 
        evergreen bush just outside my 
window flutter and sway in the east wind. 
        I wait for the sunrise to warm the 
earth, sky, water, trees, animals as winter 
	moves inexorably toward spring. I 
know there will be sobering interruptions 
	along that journey.