I sing a song about a woman and child freezing to death in the snow (related to "The Month of January") On the surface, it seems a bit maudlin and one might ask a number of questions about the circumstances. Yet, my husband's grandmother was in this very situation (though she survived) and we read in the news last week about people freezing to death in snowbanks in central Europe. Certainly, there are romantic images of indigenous cultures and previous epochs, but there is also elemental truth about what they had to deal with. Rather than pass judgment on the truth of the information in the song, shouldn't we try to understand it?