Groundhog Day (or Groundhog's Day) is an interesting story in itself. Just think for a moment... People get together and watch to see whether a little rodent-looking creature (okay, he's known as a woodchuck, marmot, or ground squirrel) casts a shadow. It doesn't really matter whether he does or not, because it's a conversation piece for at least the entire day of February 2nd.

I guess that's what we get for buying into all those stories we were told. It's amazing to see how we all are with the shadow.

Walt Whitman once wrote of "That shadow my likeness that goes to and fro seeking a livelihood...."

Madeleine L'Engle wrote: "It has only recently struck me that we need our shadow-casters, metaphorically as well as physically. What in me casts shadows, and what kind?"

Lord Byron wrote: "The dread of vanished shadows -Are they so? Is not the past all shadow?"

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote: "I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me."