Well this is the first post. I am sitting here in my office and thinking about the coming holiday. Its been a rough series of months. Friends and relations have been ill and some have died. Some will get well and others will certainly not. It is increasingly hard to keep a chipper lip when things like this are happening all around.

For a while you can just spin positive thoughts and pretend that all is OK then the depression of self delusion sets in and you go into a tailspin. There have been times when the only sane thing to do seems to have been to act insane or at least just plain goofy.

I can find little or no solace in a belief in a higher power because the only form of higher power that I can reconcile with the world as I see it does not control our lives or the environment in which we live.

There is however a peace in knowing that things do fall out and given the resilience of most of us who populate this "spinning ball of dirt", we seem to have kept things going for thousands of years. It sort of means that I have to discard any vestige of the notion that I matter a great deal in the big scheme of things (yes, I know, I don't believe in a "scheme" as it were, but I think that you get my drift.)

There is a strange peace that comes when my actions become as insignificant as the blowing snow or rustling leaves. In fact that also means that my actions have the same value as the most mighty hurricane or thundering beast. It's all a matter of perspective, scale and relativity.

A small difference that you or I make can have tremendous worth if only to one old lady or a friend who feels down. Is that as important as winning the super bowl or a Nobel prize? Yes and no.

>> Don't judge your own actions or those of others for relative worth.
>> Don't downplay the importance of any small thing that you do.
>> Value the rustling leaves and the drifting snow for their beauty.
>> Value those around you for as long as they are around you.
>> Remember them when they are gone.


Keep moving on as you do so for the next small thing that you do may have the same importance in some way as the most mighty river or the greatest novel of all time.