Apple a Day

“Everything will be all right.”

Hearing these words during a crisis, and believing them, lifts a heavy stone from your shoulders. Similarly when you feel blue, like you’re not living up to your potential, you want to hug the friend who says, “I believe in you.”

Words have the power to heal. Every person on the planet has the power to work magic with three little words. If we’re lucky, we grow up hearing them. “I love you.”

It’s not always possible to work a miracle during a crisis, so we sometimes can’t give the assurance that’s being waited for desperately. And when people let us down, it can be a stretch to express confidence in them. But one thing that’s unconditional is true love. You can express it to a special person in your life and lift his spirits in seconds.

It’s a beautiful thing.

. . . and then . . .

She looked carefully in the dish on the counter. Then she checked every cupboard. Nope. She went to the garage and looked inside boxes of old belongings. She hurried to the roof and peeked under loose tiles. Hey, she couldn't have used it all!? She spent hours, which felt like years, searching. But no. She was out of patience.

A Romantic Document?

America's Declaration of Independence grants us some terrific things -- "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. "

But where's the love? I wonder why our Founding Fathers couldn't have squeezed in "Love" somewhere, like in between Life and Liberty. I believe I have the right to love. And you do, too. Anyone you fall in love with, if he or she loves you too, why, mazel tov! No one and no group should stand in the way. (I'm a romantic.)

Waiting . . .

In Disney World, you don't always have to wait at the end of a very long line. You can speed things up by getting a kind of pass that lets you go straight to the front, several times.

What if a pass like that existed in other contexts? Suppose you didn't want to wait a long time for an appointment at the nail salon . . . or you had more than 10 items in your shopping cart but didn't want to wait at the end of a line meant for people with full wagons . . . or you were in love with someone but had to wait to get married . . .

Fairy godmother, oh fairy godmother! We're in a hurry here -- time is rushing by -- our hearts our bare and naked and yet the feeling surging through somehow is not perceived. Valentine's Day has come and gone. Other happy couples go home and make cheese fondues. They whisper loving thoughts to each other under the pretty blanket. They plan how they will raise their children. And yet there remains one man and one woman who need some kind of magic before they can enter such a life.

Waiting -- arrgh! I'd like a pass, please, and it's not for the line at Disney World.

Welcome to my blog.

Hello! Greetings and all that jazz. I read something nice the other day in a magazine at the bookstore, while sipping a tall skim decaf light-ice mocha.
"May your life be free from pain and sorrow. May it be blessed with happiness and well-being."
What a world we could have if everyone wished such a thing for all others . . .