Over the past week, we had a few days that had been unusually warm, for this time of the year, for winter. With comforting highs in the 60’s, wherever you’d go in the city, you’d find yourself surrounded by humans rejoicing with the outdoors, raising the universal question at the tail ends of winter: Is it spring yet?
It’s all too human: we want to be warm when it’s cold. We long for balmier conditions in the midst of a harsh winter, for the happiness a sunny day in spring provides. And it is precisely in this longing, that we come to feel alien from nature, from ourselves, from others.