and she said.. "how you interpret the dream is probably more important than the dream itself"

The thing to remember when you're looking out your two little eye-windows at life is that half of it, three-quarters of it, heck, no, maybe the whole goddamned thing is what those in the bidness like to call perspective. It's not about the blue sky, it's about how you see it. It's not about the rainy drizzle, it's how you react to it. Sure, maybe there is a default response you've programmed yourself into but if you believe you can't change it you never, never, never will.

I call it doubling your failure rate. Life is made up of two sides: success and failure. If you think for one moment that those two sides are even close to being equal than you've already screwed up - go back, try again please. The key to remember is that "failure" is just another word for practice and everybody knows that practice makes perfect.. And let's be honest, we spend most of our lives practicing.

Patriot's Day 2006 (a regional holiday celebrated by only Mass, Maine, and school children in Wisc), mid-afternoon, and Mark Loretta at .245 of the Boston Red Sox hits a walk-off home run to win the game against the Seattle Mariners. He's pushing 35 and yet hit a career-high experience. After the game, when asked by NESN how this ranks in his career: "Probably #1. I've never had a walk off homer at any level. Not even Little League."

One guy I knew, watching the game in the 9th as Loretta approached the plate said "Oh, he's due. He hasn't had a hit all game, he's .245; he's got one coming to him.."

Another guy I know said Mark was hopeless. "What has he done for us lately? Games over already."

I've known 30 year olds ready to curle up and call it a day. I've known 80 year olds with fire and gumption and go-get-um attitude. The point is if you don't keep trying you'll never know and if you think that it's all over, you probably have a long way to go.

Lemons? Sure, you could make lemonade.. or you could learn to like lemons. Savour the tangy tartness of one of Mother Nature's works of art. Two eyes, two ears; in life, there are two sides to everything - two ways to perceive, two ways to consider your situation. What really matters is deciding which one you want to look at.