HI GOAT GIRL-

THANKS FOR NOTE- i know, we have no real choice but to just keep paddling and float along and exist in the minute if possible.

It's such a stinker that we have soooo little influence and control over the really really important things in life. they just "happen" around us, to us, and at the end of the day- we've got about as much "say" as whether or not that hurricane is going to flatten us or blow on by.

i'm not sure whether it's a good thing or bad. I suppose if we had control over EVERYTHING- the sheer stress of always trying to do "the rite thing" would just kill us outright.

maybe this is better - not to feel like a "victim' of life's troubles , - but to realize it's alllllll just exterior 'stuff", the "way it is" in life, troubles come and go to everyone, us included. it's all in how you handle them?????

man up - ride it out best you can- save self if possible from unnecessary pain - help who you can, when you can- keep paddling, do what's right, listen to your conscience, be kind & have empathy - etc.

so - is that me just washing my hands of "responsibility" or is it all somehow pretty much how it is? (it is how it "seems" to me) (but then, i would say that, wouldn't I?)

confused as usual - but not suffering - so grateful for that.

alive, pretty day, something to do, good health, good friends, not soooo bad...,

you sound pretty good yourself- hope it's going okay for you - dbing. this up and down is a killer - oh well , it all stinks - but might not kill us after all...??? ya think ?????

xxoo