Up Up and Away

So starts a new day.  Rain and storms are  in the forecast...the sun hides in an overcast sky...and so the day begins.

Morning news: Renaissance Park and city officials met last night to discuss the expansion of businesses on Main Street; Community Crisis Center fills void in mental health treatment; Trever Chick, who was hit and killed in a traffic accident on Monday, organs will be donated.

New beginnings on many levels.  The news can be uplifting, even in a tragedy, if you will allow it to be.  An article in the American Prospect on The clear Eyed Utopianism of Ellen Willis seems to underscore this; "I think there's no such thing as too much freedom—only too little nerve," she once wrote.  We need to have the courage to advocate for our freedom.

And a little wisdom from the old bard himself, Leonard Cohen, "if you don't become the ocean you will be seasick everyday".  So learn to roll with life's happenings; the alternative seems to be unhappiness............          

 This with a morning cup of tea.