I Trim My Lion Claws

Every day the news feed bombards me with news of people shooting each other and running each over with their cars or just being awful in general.  All of this violence, and what the news fails to mention day after night, as they provide their viewing audiences with foder for anxiety and hatred, is that these events are outliers to the general human condition.  And though there is tragedy and empathy to be recognized in knowing of the pain another human is experiencing, we are not focused on the loss of another human but the oddity of the perpetrator.

I'm choosing to look beyond these anomalies starting now.  People can be generally awful, but now that I don't have the negativity of customer service to return to day after day, it is time to let go of my valued chip on my shoulder and start reaching for the positivity that I left behind when I started that job.  So many amazing things are happening both in my own world and the world at large.  

This is going to be an incredible summer and a great finish to the rest of 2013.  It hardly seems possible that I just wrapped up another semester.  Instead of lamenting what I have left to finish, I decided to celebrate what I've accomplished.  All things considered, I'm doing remarkable things with my life and to sell myself short is unfair. 

 Here is a link to a video of a jazz musician singing in an old subway car. It will make you happy.