“Pause and see a situation neither as a catastrophe nor a windfall but as a point along a continuum.”

YES YES YES! Thank you, Stephanie!

I get so tired of how everything is adjudicated in our society as “good” or “bad”. Rain makes the grass grow and the flowers bloom. It’s not a BAD day, weather-people, it’s a WET day. Get a better coat! My mother is always complaining that the Jewish holidays are either early or late this year. I asked her once, “so when, in your mind, are they on time?” It’s like those ladies on the cruise ship who complain that the food is bad AND the portions are too small. There’s no “winning” anywhere, if you choose to see life through that lens.

With all that said, my thesaurus is terrible. And it’s also terrible.