It’s raining today as I write this. In fact it has been raining for some time. That is unusual because I live in Southern California where we have been challenged by a drought. The rain is welcome, needed and valued. And because we are not used to it, our streets flood, hills slide and motorists crash. The rain caught a lot of us by surprise because the weather forecasters told us there was going to be less rain than average this year. Of course, we should have known better b

#Anticapation #Contentment

Hi, my name is David and I am an anticipation junkie. I wasn’t always this way and I am hoping to become less so, but for the moment I am addicted to anticipation. I used to think this wasn’t much of an issue. Everyone likes to look forward to things in their future that hold positive promise. People enjoy planning trips they are going to take, decorating the home as events appear on the horizon. Some people put up Christmas lights right after Halloween. I am not that bad. Bu

This picture is of an another era. It does not look like anything that would happen today. Partly it is the color of the photograph, the dress of the people and the simplicity of the structure. I look at this picture and it is hard for me to relate to it although it is a picture from my own past. When I was going to grade school in New York City, someone thought it was important to take us city kids out to the country to let us know that life was not just about skyscrapers an

We are a week into the New Year and some people who made resolutions have already broken them, others are on their way to breaking them, and some are going to see them through. There is a Paul Thorn song that goes: “Everybody looks good at the starting line.” Some of us are still looking good, others are fading and some never bothered with making a resolution at all. It doesn’t matter if you make a resolution or not, a new year, like a birthday, is a time when something new