H is for ?

H is for Health, Home, Hell, and Heaven but it's mostly for....
Hope

The old Testament describes Hope as a thief. I can see why this is true, though I like this poem about "Hope", by Emily Dickenson, much better:

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

This is the way the whole of nature lives, in a daily renewal that leaves behind what was and lives for the day that has dawned.

I hope (there's that word again!) to learn this completely innocent way of living in the years left to me, years that are fictional at best, but which unfolding to me day by day....As life always has.

Sorry for all the inconvenient spellings! The jeep was hit on the street, by the RV. I'm a little distracted. We are trying to figure out whether this is carma or karma...