The brain is an interesting place. It’s a fun place to visit once in a while. Mine tends to go at the speed of light in a circle. It’s kind of like having Siri in your car but it’s stuck on a language you don’t speak. You tell her where you want to go and hope she can understand that much. And when she finally gets you where you were going, you have no idea why you were going there anymore.

I remember when I was a younger man who fully embraced synthetic bliss and my friends and I would discuss astounding revelations that went nowhere. HA!! Never did I imagine that it was actually tactical training for when you hit 65! But compared to when I was a kid, the modern age is truly an age of wonder. When I was a boy, the most advanced technology I used was a television that got 3 channels or a transistor radio with an earphone. Just one because portable radios with stereo wouldn’t be invented for over a decade. (And I’m sure most readers under 25, if there are any, love to hear or read about the “good old days). I’m finding I rely on technology more and more in my everyday life. And my hue and cry is “There’s an app for that!!”. Thank goodness too. When I find an app that fit’s my need, I check to see if it’s free, there are a ton of free apps out there if you take the time to look, and if it is it’s on my phone or tablet and will remain there because I’ll never remember how to uninstall it. Sometimes my wife helps with a quick cognative reset of a smack across the back of the brain case. Works most times too! Even if it didn’t work I tell her it did because I don’t want her to reset again!

Now, let me clairify, I love my wife more than any other human being, including myself. So please don’t think that that my wife is bossy or demanding. Neither one of those options is true. My wife is one of the most easy-going people I have ever met. She taught me to take the time to enjoy a sunrise as something other than a measure of time. And every single day I watch a sunrise, my thoughts will be with her. I still take time most days to watch our world come to life. It happens every single day, in city scape or country side. If I have my choice, I’ll take country side every time, but city scapes are awesome too. We live in the suburbs, and it saddens me that we might be some of the last suburbanites because the pricing is astronomical, land is running out, and we have a huge shortage of parking spaces worldwide!

Count each of your little blessings, and say thank you for them.

So, what were we talking about again?