OPTIMISM IS WEAKENING...

Every household needs an optimist. In the End of the Rainbow Valley ours is Natureman. Well, that was until now.  It'd be nice to attribute it just to his social consciousness re: our country's political chaos and mishigas (craziness) of that 1%greed. BUT seriously that's just the same old, same old. So what rocked Natureman's optimism boat?

Was it this past week's issues of a house air exchanger dying, the weed whacker after a month in repair being unfixable, needing to replace a tractor tire and rim, kitchen floor choice discontinued, another periodontal visit, the lingering mouse smell in his new car, finding another dead chicken, the raccoon invasion, having to put our dog to sleep/ a cranky partner? 

Money can fix many of these things but the emotional ones are another issue. When the outside world and your own personal world emotions collide,  balance is interrupted. The End of the Rainbow Valley has always been his sanctuary, an escape from the outside world.

Maybe he will awaken today with optimism renewed/ maybe it will take a little longer.  Perhaps seeing raccoon #6 in the trap this morning will help. Gee, one of us needs to see the glass as half full.