Red Hurts

Before ice has a chance to melt, it evaporates. We had overnight rain, heavy at times, so when I took the dogs out back to their gated doghouse community for a cookie stick before dawn, I was surprised to see the Snow Moon wagging Jupiter to the west, Venus sparking the treetops to the east, and in the moonglow, cumulus humilis. With pink cherry blossoms and a sugarloaf braless woman in a black sweater crossing Stockton Street at Macy's, springtime arrives in San Francisco, closely followed, last night, by the Chinese New Year Parade, and this afternoon, by fifty thousand more demonstrators for peace.


Trends and Everyday Events in

the Early Twenty-First Century

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Richard Ames Hart

Sunday 16 February 2003