A bit warmer yesterday but back in the deep freeze today. Such is life as Paula Abdul told us some time back, ‘One step forward and two steps back…’ Success is punctuated by failure. Thomas
Edison had a multitude of failures before he invented the light bulb. 

God will make your road a six-lane super highway…we hear in some circles. Tell that to the homeless and cold and hungry. Keep our well-written rules and detailed disciplines and you will be happy healthy and wise…does not always seem to work out. The Carnival Barker extolls the virtues of his Health Elixir while all the while he is the only one benefiting from the sale of his hoax. 

Hoax is compelling to our ears. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me…is a hoax. Words have killed many. 

Blind we are as we seek the blind to lead us. 

Mirrors show us many facets of our lives. When we gaze deeply into the special glass standing before us our past is revealed. The good and the bad and the ugly as the Clint Eastwood movie of long ago was titled. We see who we started out to become…and then the results… 

‘Where are we,’ Jane said to Billy B. 

‘Well it appears to be our house but the front door is in the back and the back door is in the front,’ Billy B said with a rye grin.

‘Are you ready to go,’ Chet asked? ’We must not be late for our meeting with Chancellor Argersinger,’ he continued. 

‘Chancellor Argersinger has not been in office since 1999,’ Billy B responded. 

‘Well the meeting is regarding the building plans for more student housing as the enrollment boom has been difficult to keep up with,’ Chet said.

‘You know the strangest thing happened to me yesterday when I went to the University Mall…it was full of businesses and two theatres and a dozen eateries…the last time I was there it looked like a Ghost Town…when did all of the economic growth of the facility take place,’ Jane asked? 

‘Look at the television…the President is a woman,’ Billy B exclaimed! 

‘We did peer long into Neva J’s mirror…perhaps we walked through…, Chet mused…

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