A Welcome Return to Winter

JOURNEYS ARE BETTER when they don’t go as expected, when surprises lie around the corners, when plans go awry. And so are the seasons – or so I think – better when they don’t unfurl as they ‘should’, better when they slip from one to another and then back again in a way that makes mockery of what a calendar might predict, better when spring comes early and then winter returns…

The early onset of spring that hit two weeks ago had me feeling dismay. While it was undeniably pleasant to run up a sno...