Advent 2019

Sunshine...
  a gentle breeze...
    birdsong.

Golden paddocks
  harvested or waiting.
The drone of a distant header.
The revving of a grain truck
  passing through town.

The nearby creek
  dried to a string of puddles;
    rain both a hope and a memory.

Christmas cheer an anticipation;
  preparations for the festive season -
    presents mailed to distant family,
      an annual letter to friends.

The sure anticipation of a new year
  and summer -
     hot
      dry
        dusty.
Maybe the relief of a thunder storm.
  Almost certainly bush-fires.

So life goes on ...
  Individual lives come and go;
      but life itself goes on.