Dominating The Conversation

Like any mother grown weary

of blame and complaints, Nature

too resorts to tricks masquerading

as treats, for one becomes the

other when timing is somehow

inappropriate.  Yes, she has given

us seasons and climate extremes,

those character-forming exposures

that teach patience, restraint,

forbearance and hope, but the

constant familiarity and irritation

of those extremes of heat and

alternately cold atmospheres leave

us disgruntled and peevish.  For her

part, Nature expostulates there is

simply no pleasing us; complain of 

Polar climatic seasons and she

relents, bringing us the searing

Sahara.  She is a devious tease.