Waking, the old man stumbles through the cluttered apartment, intent upon performing the necessary morning rituals. Pouring a mug of the steaming black wine, he stretches his neck and back, eliciting the cracks and pops that bring some comforting relief. Tuning the idiot tube to a streaming of Star Trek, he sits at his desk to begin perusing the message areas.

I am reminded this early Palm Sunday of one of the reasons I got back into running a BBS and getting involved in the message exchanges. I have always been humbled and impressed at the diversity of our world. We get busy and mostly overwhelmed by the issues we deal with daily, many of us, never taking the time to consider that everyone else on this marble are in the same state. Many of us barely hang on to the last thread connecting us to sanity, and this giant storm we call life threatens daily to break that tenuous grip. This medium has always given me a view of this life from entirely different perspectives. Whether I read the political sparring in one forum, or the welcome descriptive greetings in a general chat forum, I am reminded that while our locale dictates much of our specific issues we deal with, in a general sense we all deal daily with the same thing... making a safe niche in this maelstrom of chaos to base our own sanity and conduct our lives. I hope you all are finding yourselves safe and prosperous this wonderful (for me) day.

On the stoop, the mug of morning motivation is only lukewarm as I finish the last sips, and the racoons are busy rummaging through the trash bins. The eastern sky begins to brighten as the morning starts, and the sounds of a waking Pileated Woodpecker ring out through the piney woods on the edge of the Brickyard Bayou. I laugh, as I prepare to go inside and refill my mug, at the antics of the cats playing hide and pounce.

With refilled cup, and renewed energy, the old man sits back in front of his bank of computers, selects one, and starts typing . . .

Have a wonderful day, folks..
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