OCTOBER OPTIMISM

The snares and cares were miles away on this summer-like October Saturday, and for a short time...

• The PC was idle
• The uncut grass was just a nutritious feast for the creatures and would still be there on Sunday and Monday
• The government officials were frantically working out their differences and a solution was found
• The media ignored the jerks, the twerps, and the twerks....and honor, dignity, and talent were in the spotlight again
• Entertainment became entertaining again
• Kids ran and played sans an electrical outlet or battery
• Hard work was rewarded, no work had consequences 
• Cold, wind, floods, and snow just didn't matter
• Doctors and dentists fixed what was wrong, and if it 'weren't broke', it didn't get fixed
• As my wife sat next to me, our heads cleared preparing us for our next day of routine
• As my grownup little girl sat on the other side of me, I once again protected her from the cities and the highways
• The word tax, as a noun and as a verb, didn't exist
• Communication moved as slowly and gently as the ripples of the Chesapeake, paving the way for truth and destroying speculation
• Occasional face-to-face conversation was the new constant texting

...as I sat at the water's edge with my wife and daughter, I took the calm of the Chesapeake on a summer-like October Saturday afternoon and sprinkled it over the world, destroying haste, angst, complication, and hate...