Ash Wednesday might be one of the days in the year when you’re actually lying to the people on the subway that you’re Jewish–just to avoid ashes being rubbed on your forehead. Or to the contrary you might be a devout Christian who humbly welcomes this ritual traditionally connected with the beginning of the Lent. If you’re somewhere in between, you take the ashes on your forehead as a sign that spring might actually come also this year and maybe that reminder of impermanence of living resonates somewhere deep within you…