Do you find yourself smiling more this week?
 

I can't explain it. I feel really good this week. I'm smiling more, and I'm more optimistic.

I feel like things have bottomed out, and are bouncing back up. I feel like this is a new dawn. I feel like things are already getting better.

I feel like the people I pass on the street are suddenly in on this with me, and we all silently acknowledge an unexpressed camaraderie.

Maybe it's just the chill in the air. I don't know.

Things just look very good right now. Things feel right.
Is it my imagination?

Jeff

I feel the same way.

There was a report once that people after fires or floods with massive loss reported a sense of huge relief that they were no longer responsible for all their "stuff".

The burden of acquisition can be replaced with the knowledge that the things of real value are still there!

I heard one of the pundits say something that blew my mind!
Referring to a potentially high tax on the people that generate work and hire people, the statement was something like:
"Without the incentive to make large profits, these people might just decide to go home and spend time with their FAMILIES!"
How totally heretical!

Having no problem cutting back on my spending myself, I am sort of comforted in that it is JUST about as bad as it gets and truly, there is only BETTER from here on in.

Gee Debra. I was just talking about how great the weather has been :)

oh.... never mind!!!
:thumbside
;)

I'm trying to engage the notion of what a "chill" would be like in New Iberia, Louisiana, here -- from quite a few degrees' worth of latitude north, just short of midnight after a return home in the worst of driving scenarios for an old guy whose night vision is failing, pitch dark, heavy sleet, the defroster can't keep up with it, the oncoming and following headlights (many on hi-beam), striations of light bouncing around in the car, heavy snow on the way, and a disappointed voter on the talk-radio show, someone who can't even remember who was running, after too many neat Beams, just before I switch to slightly less bitter programming involving either comedy or classicism, or refreshingly, the BBC.

Robert Genn's note today was fun. It's sometimes interesting to listen as a fly on the wall to observations from outside the country. Because those observations are often negative, I didn't always enjoy them during the many years I've lived overseas, but they were instructive. Genn's letter mentions a lot of art-related news that I suspect most artists don't know a lot about.

Here's a link: http://clicks.robertgenn.com/eyes-border.php

YES! The weather is so fine. Those crisp winds of change , that make you want to dance in the street. :cool:

Just a friendly reminder (from a moderator who also notices a delightful change in the weather these past few days) that political discussions are discouraged on this Forum, since it's likely that 46% of forum participants might not agree.

Of course, if we're talking about sunshine, clear skies and a warm front moving in, disregard my above comment.....! :sunnysmil

Oh yes, the weather is fine over here too, it feels great, like if the spring is just around the corner.
Everyone should do some landscaping now and then, it's so refreshing. Congratulations ;)

Landscaping..... I understand. Pull the old dead stuff out by the roots, plant new, energetic ones in their place, that sort of thing?

The planting is done in the fall, in hopes of blooms in late January.

Exactly.

Sure do love the change of seasons! :sunnysmil

Even here in So. California, the weather has been so very fine these past few days. Though we're well into Fall, it sure feels like Springtime! I was getting tired of all that snow and sleet we've had lately... :santa:

I love working really hard in the garden and reaping the fruits of my labor. I'm excited to see what the new year will bring to my garden and the landscape all around me.

The Weather When?
 

It is easy to forget that this is not like holding a conversation face to face.
In that your words will have meaning based on when you say them and where you are when you same them. To say great weather we are having lately has meaning to the other person since you are both in the same place and time.

On the internet and in any written word the reader may not be in the same place or even the same time as you when you wrote the words. So you must add more description of time and setting in order for others to understand your meaning.

If I say today was a great day. You have no idea why or what made it a great day unless we are both experiencing what made it great together. But if I say "Today was such a warm spring day and it seems to have put everyone in a much better mood, it really was great." You know exactly what I mean and you could read it a month from now and it still has meaning.

Remember what you post here will not be gone tomorrow and it can be read by people all over the world their weather and time are not the same as yours.

Michael,

Without presuming to have correctly interpreted all metaphors, I believe the allusion is to a popular feeling in the days immediately subsequent to the November election.

Openly political, religious and other non-painterly divisive topics (not that there aren't divisive painterly topics) are generally discouraged here as a matter of practical decorum, as they throw all the Forum gyro mechanisms into decalibration.

Even these months later, I'm enjoying the weather -- though it's not too late in the northern year for a frost, and you have to watch the new shoots in the garden, the days warm enough now for those opportunistic rabbits to look for easy pickin's.