Kind of feels like a downer right now especially with the holiday season. Money is tight everywhere and people are losing jobs left and right. You can almost smell fear in the air. No one is smiling as we go shopping for Christmas. The store clerks aren’t even as festive as they should be at this time of year. Gloom and doom all around.

I just can back from my granddaughter’s Christmas program and no one in the audience seemed to have the spirit. How sad! These kids have worked hard for this performance and no one seemed to celebrate their effort. I enjoyed the Choir concert eminsely! For a short time I forgot about the worries of the world and just remained in the moment.

Maybe this bad economy will bring people back to earth and focus their lives on what is important. The making money and spending was way out of control. Maybe people will finally learn to appreciate what it is they have instead of what they don’t have.

I have pretty good health for my age and I have the love of family. What more could I want? As long as I have a roof over my head and food on the table, the only thing that I am working hard at is loving my family and nurturing that.

As a baby boomer I am going into retirement real soon and I plan on spending the rest of my life loving everyone and enjoying the finer things in life. This would include a walk in the parK, putting my toes in the summer waters, hugging a lot, and to see how well I can optimize my health. I would consider myself a wealthy person if I could do these things.