I looked up at the TV. It has been playing the music of my life from The Spa (a digital music channel from MTRAX I get through Shaw Cable). This is what I saw:

Song Inspired by a True Story
Artist Frank Smith
Album Gardens of Hope

Gardens of Hope. What is growing in your garden? Is there fresh green poking through or is it fallow land?

In my sitting room, with my laptop, reading blogs, writing poetry, snow softly falling as gently as the notes fall around me from Gardens of Hope, these are the seeds, the soil, the sun, the moisture, the fodder... for growing hope...