Hello, winter.

Snow people, sledding, snowboarding, snowshoeing, skiing, and that feeling of wonder all around us. Walks with loved ones and pets breathing in the “renewal” that only a snowfall can bring. Of course, there’s shoveling, plowing mountains of snow, cleaning the car and walkways to neighbors’ and friends’ homes. Somehow, this simple act of crystallization, water turning to ice falling from the sky, makes us into different people of kindness.

The increase of human discontent arising from political discord, countries at war, urges to overturn democracy for plutocracy … When did we become so myopic for hate that we stopped seeing the BIG picture of our actions?

Sure, when I turn on the TV, it’s to PBS for a fix of “Nature,” “Nova,” and, well, no bobbing heads spewing what the Corporate Networks make them spread. I want to Think about all sides of an issue, I want to See what any action or word causes.

You remember, “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction?”

By the way, that was Sir Isaac Newton’s third law of motion. Yep, elementary school science.

What we do and say every day affects not only our personal future, but all those we encounter, and then exponentially impacting our world. We can be so much better by starting with opening our minds to not only tried and true philosophies but to new ideas, new genres of societies that we would most likely never be able to see if we continue to live in the proverbial box of narrowmindedness. A world of beauty and knowledge is at our disposal, i.e., check out what other people are accomplishing via Earth Shot Prize… right now!

Come on, get in the Future Groove, be part of the solution not the problem.

MARGARET KUTZERA,

Harrisville