Robins Haiku

 

As robins were late

For southern warmth this winter

Our holly fed them

A Haiku for the Season

 A little Haiku to mark this unusual start to winter:

                    Snowfall turns to ice

                    And the cold keeps us at home

                    Awaiting Christmas.

"A Tale of Two Cities" Paints a Portrait of Today

 I sat down this afternoon to begin re-reading Charles Dickens' classic, A Tale  of Two Cities and was surprised to be immediately struck by its opening sentences:

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,  it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope,  it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."

Published in 1859 and telling a tale set in 1775, it could have been describing our own times.  What more to say?