Are you familiar with the legend of the robin? According to this tale the robin was originally a little brown bird. That is, until Good Friday the FIRST Good Friday. On that dark day this little brown bird saw a man nailed to a cross, slowly dying. He was all by himself . . . and there was no one to help him. The little brown bird began trying to free the man from the cross. The bird flew around and around until he found a way to remove a thorn from the crown of thorns that circled the man’s head, and in removing the thorn the little robin stuck himself. And the diving back and forth to the nails and to the thorns on the man’s head, the little brown robin got his little breast all red with blood, and since then he has been known as the bird with the red breast.

It’s just a legend, of cour…