Another Friday is here. MJ’s Birthday is tomorrow and today is the pre-Birthday celebration. Giant City Lodge for lunch today. They have a great Old Fashioned.

We look for grandeur and exquisite delight outside our normal walk while…it surrounds us daily. We all woke up this morning and the world began once again. Whatever problems we are facing seem a bit brighter today in the sunlight of nearly spring.

Little Lives are what we live. Not little in importance but little in the microcosm of our daily ‘new life’ that we face each morning. We tend to think of our life from a thirty-thousand-foot view when it is in reality a

bunch of 24-hour snapshots.

Each day is new. Each is unique. Each day we step onto the stage of life to play our role. A colleague asked me how I was able to work a career at Southern Illinois University and I responded that I did it one day at a time.

Focusing on each day removes the regrets of the past and the uncertainty of the future. We are living inside the gift while the mysteries of the universe swirl about us.

It is a bit like seeing a wonderful large brightly wrapped Christmas gift sitting next to the Christmas tree and being so excited that you can not sleep Christmas Eve. Early Christmas morning you race to the tree and begin tearing the paper off with abandon. There before you is a lovely full-length mirror with a note attached…’You are loved…Use your gift wisely…’