Pisces Begins...

It really is almost the beginning of Spring when Pisces (begins approx. Feb 20-21) starts and the farmers and sugar makers are beginning the chores that lead up to the huge and hopeful effort of making maple syrup. It's been a strangely snowless winter... so far. It feels almost like another season altogether. The stars at night are clear and glorious as ever in Winter. Radiant, shining, perhaps no longer even present in the Universe. I think of Irving when Pisces rolls around... how can I not? He was a "Pisces' Pisces" if there ever was one. "Feed my lambs," he said, going off to Florida-- he referred to the wild cats that lived in and under his house. He also used to feed the mice that ran along the rafters, something I keep in my mind when I occasionally long to be rid of the ones that scamper up and down from the third floor study to the bedroom. Don't worry, spiders: I keep house Casually -- Issa