Short break

Have a short break, rushed to get a sandwich, my only meal until dinner, and in the shop the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper" album was playing -- what a work of musical genius! Been a while since I took the time to listen to it. An extraordinary achievement -- and as fresh today as the time in Salt Lake City when I first listened to it with "Sally", in those early days of my adult life and career when all things seemed possible, when the fact that in less than a decade my world would turn upside down was not even a remote possibility, happiness felt so secure. And thus the gods are forever surprising us, reminding us that nothing should be taken for granted.