The Downside of Up…

‘Though honing my gratitude muscles here lately, I’m still not much for perpetual positive pounding drowning out the sound of anything realistic, anything begging acknowledgement beyond conspiracies of love and beauty (say the Troy Davis dilemma, Occupy Wall Street, media whitewash of corporate corruption etc.). This 10 minute jaunt is worth the perspective. My only exception with this is that our thoughts and expectations are tremendously powerful, ‘though they are not the only forces creating the realities we call “daily life.”