The Other Side of the Coin

Think of it this way...it could be worse...

War in Iraq
War in Afghanistan
Bombs in Times Square
McCain, Lieberman, Cornyn et al
Lawrence Taylor
The N.R.A.
The Tea Party
Sarah Palin
Lyme Disease
Greece
The BP Oil Spill
Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, et al
Gas Prices
Unemployment
Goldman Sachs
Formspring

And the list goes on...

But the antidote is just outside the window.

IT'S SPRING!!!!

The air is clear and fresh.

There's no humidity.

The flowers are out and fragrant.

The garden is ready.

The smell of newly cut grass hangs in the breeze.

The beach is open.

Shorts and sandals are in the closet.

You can smell the suntan lotion.

The soft serve is perfect.

IT'S SPRING.!!

We are blessed by the changing of the seasons. We suffered through the winter and the rain of the early spring (may get more of that still but it's great for the tomatoes...)

The ability to be outside and to run, barefoot, in the grass or the sand is a cure-all.

To inhale the sea air or to breathe on top of a mountain or in a meadow refreshes the body and more importantly...the soul!!

Thank God (g-d) for the change. Obama talked about change in '08. It was all the rage.

But Mother nature delivers on her promise every year...year after year...generation after generation.

We are continually given the chance to renew...to start all over again...tabula rasa.

Maybe the solution to our problems is to herd all of the above into a dry riverbed in early April and just wait for the rains of Spring to come down and wash it all away.

We could stand there too...just above on the bank...with a bar of soap...and get clean in at the same time.

We need that. We need to get clean. To start all over again.

Heaven knows that we're dirty. Filthy with the scum of thousands of years of greed, jealousy, hypocrisy and lies.

Bring on the rain...just not on Game Day...any day but that...let 'em play...no tarps (no TARPs either...let em' fail, the bastards...)

Batter up!!