Is it more global weirding? Buried in snow and ice and then--pow!!--a blast of tropical air with sheets of rain finally tempering down to good old fashioned thunder and lightning. I had to dodge the rain indoors as I went to fetch kids today, the school had sprung so many leaks. I guess that's the state of public education, right? For regular folks, anyway; I don't mean you rich people in posh locales such as Brookline and Hanover. I love the kids so much who I have the privilege of working with--if only there was not so much poverty and deprivation. The holidays always bring it out in me: thankfulness for the abundance in my life yet this disquieted feeling about the suffering in the lives of so many children.