get well wishes from a fellow Canadian

Greg,

Haven't met you yet, but would like to. I'm a buddy of Carrie's at BGI. And I'm also a fellow Candian (mostly grew up in Ottawa.)

My family up there tell me the 10 feet of snow they got this winter is FINALLY starting to melt. Soon there will be sap-ripened buds on the trees, the rich smell of sun-warmed earth. There will be birds (and mosquitos and blackflies - but let's stay focussed on the birds.) There will be the wild coursing of melt-swollen rivers, there will be barefoot running laughing children, there will be flowers and veggies sticking tentative emerald tendrils above the soil. There will be spring!

It will be like the land herself has woken up from a long, winter slumber. I hope and pray to the same lifeforce that awakens and heals the land each spring to help you awaken and heal too.

Love,

- Ari