One of my friends on social media suggested last week that it was not mid-April, but the 117th day of January. Blizzards, wildfires, flooding and drought all occurred somewhere in the heartland of this country on that day. I was ashamed of myself for complaining about snow flurries and icy winds when I learned of the devastation caused by wildfires in Oklahoma. I choked back tears when I talked to my friends in western Iowa who were in the peak of calving season when Mother Nature dumped a foot of snow and 50 mile-per-hour winds on their farm.
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