Day 3 - 293 -- Pendulum of Emotions

This week has seen the arrival of news in a number of forms. Appointments and meetings have brought verbal news that has been mostly positive. In fact, a couple of meetings gave me reason to see things in a more positive light and go so far as to hope for better outcomes <smile>. Other news brought feelings of sadness and concern for others.

When I write it like this, it sounds like something one would expect from life -- ups and downs. From a statistical perspective, perhaps this means that life is trending towards the mean. This overall view shouldn't squelch the importance of the the ups or the downs. Each swing in the direction of incoming communications could send us into a similar emotional upheaval. I don't mean that we shouldn't acknowledge the emotions whether up or down, but that we may not want to let those emotions take over fully and pull us to extremes in one direction or another. In short -- feel the happiness and feel the sadness but not allow either to put us into a slingshot out of control. Just a thought that I am exploring further.

The selection for today has a title and chorus that fits these musings, though I'm not sure 'little' fits all the ups and downs well. The singer has a great country voice. Enjoy!

Life's little ups and downs -- Ricky Van Shelton