Do you find yourself smiling more this week?

[Jeff Fuchs]

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

[Chris Saper]

I feel the same way.

[Debra Jones]

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.

[Jeff Fuchs]

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

[Debra Jones]

oh.... never mind!!!

[Steven Sweeney]

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

[Cindy Procious]

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

[Michele Rushworth]

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.....!

[Allan Rahbek]

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

[Michele Rushworth]

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