Little Dorrit

Yesterday and today a hard rain was falling. The rain canceled out our neighborhood day of work at the DMZ community garden and the building of the stone wall around my front lawn garden. Also due to the rain my wife and I canceled our drive to the country for dinner to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary. We still went out to dinner at a local restaurant, but the country drive did not make sense on a dark stormy day.

On the brighter side of life tonight was the final episode of the Masterpiece Theater presentation on PBS of the Charles Dickens story “Little Dorrit”. Like most Dickens novels the stories and characters are complicated and intricate but hold your attention. TV needs to simplify the Dickens novels, but the BBC broadcast still kept the spirit of the story alive. All Dickens stories seem to be of poverty and destitution but end happily for the main characters. I can see why Dickens was so popular a writer ever since his own time.

In this story “Little Dorrit” is born in a debtor’s prison, suffers a hard life, but survives to meet the love of her life and enjoy prosperity.

Poverty and destitution are like a hard rain falling. Both make the times tough to endure but you know deep down that if you can endure it the rain and the hard times will lead to joy and new life.

This week I need to plant some more flower bulbs so that the April showers we now face will bring May flowers.

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