Seventy-Two & Sunny 😎

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On November 8th in Buffalo-Freaking-New York!

And has anyone noticed that the Buffalo Bills are 7-2 for the first time since 1993...

...when they went to the Super Bowl.

2020 has appeared to be about six years long, but ever since the Springsteen record dropped on 10/23 things have been looking up.

Unless you look at the Covid-19 numbers.

The election mess disguised the fact that 100,000 new cases are there every single day.

What do the next couple of months look like?

The head of the Covid task force hasn’t been present on any of the calls for over a month.

Then, in the middle of the wonderful summer-like day news broke that Alex Trebek lost his battle with cancer.

I can’t even begin to name all the celebrities who have died in 2020.

Yet, there was the sun. Not a cloud in the sky.

Neighbors were raking leaves. I saw bikes moving down the street.

Dogs outside.

Someday soon there’s going to be a day that passes where we don’t have 12 BREAKING NEWS flashes.

Th vile, hate-filled social media posts and arguments will lessen.

I have to believe that.

Maybe we won’t suddenly break into song and dance in the streets every three days. (There was a lot of dancing on Saturday).

Perhaps the nastiness of the last few years won’t suddenly give way to everyone getting along famously.

But the sun was really shining yesterday.

And I daydreamed about peace and love, love and peace.

A call for unity? Another Bills win? A November day in the sunshine? The golf ball on the fairway? Bruce’s record on a loop?

Maybe 2020 can have a few great moments.

Right?

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