Robins Everywhere

October 22, 2009.  In Pennsylvania, where we lived under ice and snow for several months every winter, the ROBIN was the signal that times were changing.  For the better.

Red-breasted robins arrived on our porch the last couple weeks of February every year.  What brought them at that time?  Some inner clock, I suppose.  Some inner faith.They must have lived on freeze-dried worms for a couple weeks because it was still winter.  Still snowbanks everywhere.  Still islands of ice on farmponds.  Not even one green leaf or one green blade of grass.  But crocus and daffodil bulbs were already on the move underground, unseen, and ‘right around the corner’, and the robins announced that.

Robins are everywhere in this economy.  When I wrote the last newsletter the last week in August, we teetered on the edge between Recession and Recovery.  The headlines since then have been a drumbeat of recovery.

9/12/09, Wall Street Journal:  “Consumer Optimism Rises, Forecasters Predict 10.2% Unemployment Rate.”
9/15/09, Fox Business.com: “Bernanke: Recession ‘Very Likely Over’”
10/8/09, San Mateo Journal:  “New Jobless Claims Fall to 521K, Lowest Since January”
10/8/09, San Mateo Journal: “Retailers See Sales Begin to Recover in September”
9/16/09, San Jose Mercury:  “Valley’s Uptick Eclipses the State’s—Local Economy Poised for Quick Rebound with Tech Help”
10/14/09, Fox Business.com: ”Welcome Back:  Dow Recaptures 10,000”

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