The question is, who is doing the wishful thinking? Is it the folks who put up the "thin ice" sign wishfully thinking that winter would actually arrive as usual and then thinking - wishfully - that people would pay attention and stay off the ice? Is it the hellebores and forsythia thinking, wishfully - or wistfully - that spring has already sprung when, in fact, it is only January. Or is it the guys in the trees thinking - as is their wont - that it is during the winter when trees need pruning so when spring arrives - months from now - the branches will be healed and ready to sprout at the proper time and not, as seems possible, right now. So is it wishful to think that our globe is not in big trouble? I think so. I wish I didn't.
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