This week's newsletter will be brief as I am attending, and participating in, the very joyous wedding of my dear niece.

 

We all work hard in America.  In fact, people all over the world work hard.  We do it to make a decent life for ourselves and for our families.  Every now and then it's good to get away from all that stuff we do when we work hard.

 

Family events, like weddings, allow us the opportunity to take a rest, recoup, consolidate out thoughts, and assess our life at that particular juncture.  This break gives us the time, if we choose to accept it, to listen to our inner self as it tries to tell us what is important and what is frivilous, what is real and what is imaginary.  When we work hard clear thinking is all but obliterated as our minds are fighting too many battles on far too many fronts, and for too many days and weeks, so that by the time we get home at the end of the day we are exhausted.

 

Much like the road that a good stock travels on its way up the price charts, with strong moves to the upside followed invariably by resting points where the stock bareley moves up or down over a period of weeks or months, I find myself over these last few days unharried and taking a well needed rest.

 

Life is good if we apply the right frame of mind and try to minimize negativity while always striving to find the good in all things.  After all, what do most people do with negative thoughts, other than to make their life and the lives of those around them absoutely miserable.  What's with that anyway?  Is that supposed to be fun?

 

Thank you all for reading my newsletters and thank you for your words of encouragement and constructive criticisms.  It is my distinct pleasure to have you as an audience for my ramblings.  I hope that I will never disappoint you.