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Happy Groundhog Day! (to Jackie & Ryan ~ these beautiful two souls…but enough about their adorability)…

Let’s talk more about Groundhog Day.

The one holiday that represents…nothing. Yes, there may be some shenanigans in the selection process of the “purest” breeding practices and bloodlines of groundhogs, solid build, symmetrical features…or, maybe what it comes down to is which groundhog is the most chill and least likely to bit the guy in the pilgrim hat? (side note: what’s his deal…? When will it be a woman’s chance to be Punxsutawney Phil’s handler…and does the gender of the Groundhog matter? So many questions.)

The fact that some puritans believed that whether or not a groundhog sees its shadow on Feb. 2nd has anything to do with the length of winter is so stony, however, to be fair, so too are most superstitions in cultures everywhere…I just feel like most of them actually have a story that’s cool enough to be categorized as “myth”…with a protagonist, antagonist, superhuman feats that could be performed only by “God-like” characters, plot twists, etc.

But here, it’s just a chubby groundhog coming out for a snack for no apparent reason other than we need something that casts a shadow…, and yeah, let’s pick the shortest creature so it’ll never be definitive whether or not that shadow is really there. And they can’t assess this just anywhere in Punxsutawney, PA… it must be done at Gobbler’s Knob. Great shadow casting there. Buffonery.

Nate Bergatze in an SNL George Washington bit, please validate my confusion by taking a stab at all this…
But I digress. I love Groundhog Day because it is so trivial. Someone just thought, it’s been too long since MLK day, Presidents’ Day is too far away, and I’m sure getting bored with winter…can we get an arbitrary holiday already? Yes. Yes, we can.

Hot Take on movie of the year: Train Dreams. It’s the only hot take I’m willing to share here right now… Other than that, I just humbly offer some stupendous photos of two beautiful people. Have a pleasant evening and F#ck Ice.

India+Matthew bringing some much needed sunshine to start the year in Harmony @townofharmony