A big snow yesterday here in the Northeast U.S. and a great opportunity to summon my inner child while reflecting on the incredible scary world in which this gray-haired adult lives.
Like a kid hoping for a snow day, I got up three or four times during the night to check the progress of the nor'easter and was rewarded. The university closed, so I could fix a leisurely breakfast, have an extra cup of 
coffee, slip on my mukluks and take a long walk before circling back to chase off the blackbirds, refill the feeder for the nuthatches, juncos and all of my other little guys, and grab a shovel to clear my and the neighbors sidewalks as the snow ended.
With the Dow dipping below 7,000 points for the first time since forever and the one-time bedrock but now corrupted financial institutions that long fueled the American engine failing, it may well turn out that March will be the cruelest month for President Obama.
We are proving to be an enormously resilient and patient people in the face of the greatest non-war crisis 
to visit upon the U.S. in over seven decades, and Obama is engineering a shoot-the-moon recovery and revitalization smorgasbord of programs and policies that are extraordinary in their breadth and expense while being entirely necessary and very much of the moment. With the Republicans continuing their slo-mo suicide, the only major roadblock short of a major internaitonal crisis is those so-called zombie banks, many of them still being run by people who should be frog walking to prison, that are most responsible for getting us into this mess in the first place.
Like I said, it may turn out that March will be the cruelest month.
Top photograph by Rebecca Ward in The New York Times
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