A Historic Week
One of the escapees was shot and killed.
There were terror attacks on 3 continents.
The Affordable Care Act was deemed constitutional again...after about the 30,000th challenge.
And same-sex marriage became the law of the land.
Quite a week, huh?
It's a funny thing about history...it doesn't seem historic at the very moment when it's happening and in this fast-paced world...our attention span is sort of short.
Everything is the greatest this or the worst that...
...but this week will linger, I believe.
On the healthcare and same-sex marriage decisions alone there will be long-term ramifications.
Good or bad?
That's up to you, I guess.
It's also up to history to show us what way the cookie crumbles.
But you know what?
I basically missed all of it.
I spent the week in my own sort of turmoil as the worst part of my job reared its ugly head. I had to assist in an incident review that cost a man, a good man, his life.
An accident.
And I can't even begin to express the toll that it takes on all involved.
Emotionally it's horrific.
I knew, all week long, that I was just one of about a couple hundred people who was suffering because of the accident.
And by the end of the week I was searching for answers to questions that have no answer.
Yet I reached a conclusion of sorts.
I clung to those in my family.
We celebrated Sam's birthday.
We headed out to see Ted 2.
We went to dinner and Sam was my eating partner as we decided:
Life's too short to not eat steak and lobster.
(Thank God I have a boy who likes to eat those things - and his steak is rare as well - he joins a long line of Fuzzy men).
At the movie we laughed a lot.
Thank God for Seth McFarland.
And on the way home, we shared our favorite jokes and laughed some more.
The Yankees, pasta, rest and a prayer or two.
Even when history is being made and even when life rears its ugly head...
...it all comes back to finding a little soft spot in the middle of the hard road...
...to just lie down and rest.
There were terror attacks on 3 continents.
The Affordable Care Act was deemed constitutional again...after about the 30,000th challenge.
And same-sex marriage became the law of the land.
Quite a week, huh?
It's a funny thing about history...it doesn't seem historic at the very moment when it's happening and in this fast-paced world...our attention span is sort of short.
Everything is the greatest this or the worst that...
...but this week will linger, I believe.
On the healthcare and same-sex marriage decisions alone there will be long-term ramifications.
Good or bad?
That's up to you, I guess.
It's also up to history to show us what way the cookie crumbles.
But you know what?
I basically missed all of it.
I spent the week in my own sort of turmoil as the worst part of my job reared its ugly head. I had to assist in an incident review that cost a man, a good man, his life.
An accident.
And I can't even begin to express the toll that it takes on all involved.
Emotionally it's horrific.
I knew, all week long, that I was just one of about a couple hundred people who was suffering because of the accident.
And by the end of the week I was searching for answers to questions that have no answer.
Yet I reached a conclusion of sorts.
I clung to those in my family.
We celebrated Sam's birthday.
We headed out to see Ted 2.
We went to dinner and Sam was my eating partner as we decided:
Life's too short to not eat steak and lobster.
(Thank God I have a boy who likes to eat those things - and his steak is rare as well - he joins a long line of Fuzzy men).
At the movie we laughed a lot.
Thank God for Seth McFarland.
And on the way home, we shared our favorite jokes and laughed some more.
The Yankees, pasta, rest and a prayer or two.
Even when history is being made and even when life rears its ugly head...
...it all comes back to finding a little soft spot in the middle of the hard road...
...to just lie down and rest.
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