Slowly Stitching

Slowly stitching in my island of calm

Weeping for injustices around the world

Praying that solutions will be found

Hoping that governments will prove themselves worthy

It is surely a time when drastic systemic change is needed

It is a time to invest in change

It is a time to invest in people

And talking of change

Our garden Robin decided to place her nest atop our garden hose

and we are very grateful to her for that

because they usually nest high above in spruce trees

but this year for a change we can get to watch her.

Eggs of new beginnings

Eggs full of potential for the future

It is hard not to have a heavy heart but

 Perhaps she placed her eggs in sight to remind me

it is possible to make a brighter world

and we are living through the time of change.

I hope you find some jewels in your day

And the Sun Keeps on Rising Every Day

Do you remember last week's red sky in the morning?

 I wondered if it was an omen for snow Saturday.

 Well it DID snow on Saturday.

 And what is more a friend and I were on the highway.

 She had taken her car to have snow tires put on the day before;

but the garage broke a lugnut and so the job wasn't done.

 We were tootling along in a line of traffic when all of a sudden the car decided to play ice hockey.

 We slid and skated into the other lane and back again for what seemed like ages.

Then the car had had enough and decided to race off the road.

 My poor friend seemed very calm on the outside but her hands were trembling.

 She had done a marvelous job getting us out of the way of oncoming traffic.

Wonderful people stopped and helped me push the car back onto the highway.

 We sat by the side of the road for a while.

 When we got going again, it wasn't long before we came across police and ambulances helping people who had not been as lucky as us.