Hungry Days
by William Crisp
It’s been cold and I’m getting old. I’ve been spending time burning wood. Even though it’s usually an indoor activity, burning wood is a connection to the outdoors. Besides the process of cutting and splitting and handling the product of trees, it is the releasing of hardened sunshine that is hundreds of years old. The wood heat seeps deeper into my bones, where it is needed more than it has been in the past.
It is the hungry time of the year when you wonder how the animals are going to make it. I know the critters must be suffering looking for food. They deal with it every year but it can’t be easy.