Sky Reflection

Quiet sky reflection The sky over Europe is silent, but there is fear in the air, few lemons no oranges and no mangos for starters. When planes do not pollute the sky we starve. I remember a time when what we ate followed seasons plenty of fruit in the fall of which we made jam. But we did have plenty of turnips. At Christmas, we killed a pig and a ship docked with festive oranges and bananas. Millions of people are stranded on foreign shores desperate to get home, planes are to refined to pass a bit of volcanic ash. (And, it is called progress) a question remains why did they leave in the first place? why are they so desperate to get back to the rainy place they left? Mind, many didn’t want to go, but holidaying is a must, a human right. Shoulder to shoulder with fellow travelers, suffer the indignity of being treated as cattle at airports and made to like it. To be met with distain behind skilled at at some dreadful hotel and be forced to eat when it suits the staff. You are not a person, but a tourist good for the economy of, say, Spain. It worries me this interconnected world a strike and a bit of ash and we have no potatoes, the most stable of food. We must rethink globalization; learn to be more self-sufficient, let our menus follow the seasons. Lamb with mint sauce is Easter food we need not eat lamb in October but Irish stew with turnips and boiled home grown potatoes.