Isn’t the Light OK?

Image by Steve Rhodes via Flick

A lit­er­ate coun­try — a hope­fuller coun­try…
– For­mer Leader of the Free World, George W. Bush
Recent events have tran­spired to make me less despair­ing of the future. Here, in ram­bling, semi-coherent form, are a few of the rea­sons I feel, well, “hope­fuller.”
Per­haps it’s the change in the weather. Warmer tem­per­a­tures, longer days, […]

Don’t be fright­ened to dis­play your tal­ents. — Brian Eno’s Oblique Strate­gies, as just seen on Twit­ter
Your tal­ents will be rec­og­nized and suit­ably rewarded. — For­tune cookie taped to my monitor