Dry and lonely
We are only halfway through the love month and we can feel the heat already. Not of passion but rather of an expected long summer that seems rather unwelcome in these days of affectionate promises kept, and oftentimes broken, as though they were extensions of the new year’s resolutions that ended Christmas, but not its chilling bites at night that once lingered, but seem not to any longer. Like parched love, when Valentines were empty and one’s heart is lonely, large tracts of land come dry at first sign of summer, when the boys of my youth used to frolic in swamps and rivers, enjoying their races and baseball games in the dry fields that only wait for the rains to end the few months of reign by King Sun, the Great Sol whom our ancestors worshiped, giving life as it powered the earth, until their descendants realized their follies, rather only lately, that the film protecting the earth has become slimmer and thinner; that El Niño, that dreaded curse of the sun, has come.... MORE Source: The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/commentary/20100215com6.html |
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Dry and lonely HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 02/15/2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
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