When one is left alone to meditate (albeit in public view amidst crowds and family), one is no longer one.
Praying for people to accept what has happened and will happen with no thoughts/dwelling on what might have been.
Listening to conversation at a Christmas open house about: enjoying the Andy Griffith TV show, trying to sell a nice one-story rancher house in this economy, becoming a great-great grandmother, the 93-year old sixth grade teacher alive and doing well (the student in his 70s still appreciative of the teacher's positive influence), the city schools' band director recruiting flute players, the storyteller Doc McConnell's young daughter now retired with a teenage daughter of her own, Crook & Chase back at it again...
The world has changed but it hasn't.
One's 16-year old niece with a job of her own, buying her uncle a box of practical jokes (joy buzzer, whoopie cushion, flies-in-ice, etc.) with her personally-earned money - just like her mother and uncle before her, buying family gifts with their first jobs. Keeping her sensitive, artistic side open through painting, expecting perfection.
One's 17-year old niece getting engaged to a nice young man in the military - wasn't her stepgrandfather a military man when he proposed to his bride-to-be?
One's 18-year old nephew continuing the family thespian tradition a [BIG] step further.
Dogs making tracks in the snow.
Cats curling up under the covers.
What if the power to brighten a single light bulb was more significant than deciding whether to add ambiance for a holiday gathering with the flick of a switch?
Assuming much when assuming nothing.
What if, instead of filling prisons, we found meaningful work for those who were willing to risk their families' health and security to build meth labs at home? Fulltime pharmaceutical laboratory test subjects, for instance, earning minimum wage, hazard pay and medical benefits.
Turn self-interest into something more profitable.
Meditating the self out of the picture.
The father's speaking tours on industrial engineering in the U.S. become the son's blog about reengineering the species' place in the universe.
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