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I hit a nerve last week when I spoke of my fallow period; many of you said you're feeling the same. For my first Wordle guess yesterday I chose allow and then realized if I added an F I'd have fallow. Then I looked it up, just to be sure I knew what I was talking about. Here's what the dictionary says; "(of farmland) plowed and harrowed but left unsown for a period in order to restore its fertility as part of a crop rotation or to avoid surplus production." I don't have to worry about surplus production, but restoring fertility sounds like a good. Also, "A fallow period of time is one in which very little happens." Then I thought of a verse from People Look East, one of my favorite Christmas carols, actually an advent carol, because it's all about getting ready for the coming. "Furrows be glad when Earth is bare One more seed is planted there Give up your strength the seed to nourish that in time the flower may flourish, People ...