Reviewing a Complex Year

Up to October's end life was peaceful and delightful; I enjoyed the strolls and chats, going to baseball games, seeing crowds cheer at CitiField and I zealously wrote about many human experiences. Disaster as predicted, was in store for two thousand twelve: Italy was shaken by earthquakes, drought and floods in the USA, then Sandy came with fury wreaking havoc and destroying everything in its path. Thankful and blessed for not having lost anything, greatly rejoiced for being alive, but moved by the tears of others whose homes were slammed by the storm on the eastern coast... who doesn't sympathize with their loss? Obama has been re-elected, will he bring those changes he promised in the first term? Iran has fired at an American Warfare and vows to exterminate Israel; Syria is in turmoil and Greece is facing unemployment and unrest. An unimaginable fear awaits us all: is it another World War, or Armageddon?