The comments and congratulations are still coming in to Sharon's Facebook.  We are definitely not alone in being thrilled for her present circumstances.  I hope it continues without much negative stuff popping up.  All of us surely want the best for 'all of us'.  I feel that my own circumstances are on a bit of an upswing as well.  No easy road, but it is a pleasant journey with possibilities instead of road blocks.  I do tend to settle in to a routine and my 2012 routine seems a slight bit better then 2011.  This year does look like a pretty eventful period in our lives.  Know some of what will happen, but the other stuff just 'feels' like it will happen.  Just where it will all lead is still a mystery, but we hope it is a good mystery.  My new word for the day is 'pensive'.  I am trying to be more pensive. I see it as a skill too.  To be good at it requires practice and I am trying to be good at 'pensiveness'.  Of course, I define it in my own way as a positive thing and as a powerful thing.  It can bring learning and understanding and even edification, all of which I need and seek.  Being an old man that is where my desires are and a skill that I can develop without injuring myself.  I think that it has a lot to do with wisdom.  And who could ask for more then to be wise.  Isn't that what the scriptures say:  "Oh be wise, what can I say more?"

 

Pensive is to wisdom as my push ups are to strength and endurance.