It's a surprise, isn't it how hard it is to see what's right in front of you trace in a sea of details a pattern learn how the small things add up to form the big? Easier, though, when it's a spider's brilliantly woven web or the shapes and motions of leaves dancing in the wind on a warm September evening. When I was a boy I worried for a while when I discovered, perhaps in school, that all the galaxies in the universe were speeding away from each other at blinding speed. Although I hadn't known about them previously, I grew concerned. Our Earth could suffer some horrible, tragic fate sometime in the far future I feared, agitated by the silent, hidden dangers lurking in the stars. Now, I worry about things closer to home. We live in a time when it's easy to ignore the realities that make up our lives as if they're merely images on a screen. Still, new dangers grow, silent, hidden, not in the stars but in ourselves.
Yes, Chris! With the latest shenanigans emanating from D.C., I have begun to feel a rising (panic?) deep from within, like a dread that is wrapping around my vital organs. I have been doing even more deep breathing and our new bed has a vibration mechanism that I now use for 10 or 20 minutes before I am able to drift off to sleep. Such times in which we live!