Darkness falls quickly, long before dinner. The evenings are deep and reflective, times that make body and soul a bit weary. Deep Winter, just before the Solstice, is a time for imagination and possibility more than making something happen.
Into this darkness plunged the news that the “Dear Leader” of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, has died suddenly. The world has reacted with a mild panic, stock markets tumbling as they contemplate the possibility of more uncertainty ahead in the region. This was especially true in South Korea, a nation that only recently completed the leap from developing nation to the developed world.
This may not seem like a time of “Romance” in the way that anyone typically uses the word, but the imagination of the moment demonstrates what a new Romantic Era is like, good and bad, far better than nearly anything else.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 