The Rattlesnake Will Call You To The Dance

Kate Wolf: Medicine Wheel

It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age
of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief,
it was the epoch
of incredulity,
it was the season of Light,
it was the season
of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope,
it was the winter of despair,
we had everything
before us,
we had nothing before us,
we were all going
direct to Heaven,
we were all going
direct the other way –
in short, the period was
so far like the present period,
that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
--Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities