Writ­ten today, the 29th of Feb­ru­ary: She planted the seed and waited. After a while rain came down from the sky, pelt­ing her skin, chill­ing her. She shiv­ered but didn’t leave, not yet. The Sun came out, warm­ing the soil, dri­ving the cold from her bones. She waited. Clouds scud­ded by over­head, in a hurry for …