We have had a tumultuous few days, with the midterm elections on Tuesday and all the rumbling and mumblings that came with it. Actually, now, on a sunny and cool Thursday, I'm feeling sort of free and unreserved, realizing that life is still flowing along in its good-humored way, and what I have to do, as usual, is simply sit back in my boat and let life carry me along where it will. Trump is a fool, but so are all of us at times. These times seem scary to many of us, but there are always occasional storms at sea, and our boats have to simply settle down and wait for the sunshine. As always, it will come.  (This doesn't mean that we don't have to work, and work hard, to make some changes in our government's policies. Of course we do, but we must work hard with the reassuring understanding that the "sea" beneath us is infinite and indestructible, and our good work will allow it to take us where we need to go.)

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A painting for today . . . 

"Walking in the Leaves", oils on canvas paper, by Jessica Naish Lingley