Three hundred and forty-fourth day

A text message from a wife to her husband.

Comments on the instagram post (Tracy Wigfield posted it) indicate opposing viewpoints.
Lazy, or thrifty (there are a couple squares left!)

It made me laugh - I've been both thrifty AND lazy.

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Insanity is knowing what love is and not passing it on...

That's a thought from the first man speaking in Series 1, Episode 1 of Humans of New York: The Series on Facebook.

His opening speech had other interesting things to say (see below), but this is the part that stuck out to me this morning.
If we've been given the gift of love at any point in our lives and know how much it changes our hearts and our souls, why would we not want to share that with everyone we encounter.
It's part of the experience of love to want to share it.
I'm speaking of the love that is unconditional and includes every part of our being, especially the part that makes mistakes.
You are more precious than a wish-fulfilling jewel.
I've experienced that feeling in brief moments over the course of my lifetime.  Sometimes when looking at the stars, mostly in private moments.
Knowing that it often brought me to tears because I felt accepted and part of a larger whole, I wish that I did a better job of sharing that feeling with people I interact with - including myself and the people who know how to push my buttons.

Insanity is being young and wanting to grow up too fast.
Insanity would be knowing where the gold is and not going to get it...knowing where the diamonds are and not going to get them...
Insanity would be knowing what love is and not passing it on to the next friend or family member or loved one.
Insanity would be having a gift and saying 'oh - it's not worth anything'.  And then when you find out the gift was worth something you spend the rest of your life trying to get it back. And then you find out that the gift that was given to you is life. And once you've kinda given your life away it's not easy trying to get it back and nine times out of ten you probably won't.

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This recap of all the Star War movies prior to the release of The Last Jedi (coming soon) makes me not care at all about Star Wars.  Sheesh - this is what happens when there are too many sequels and prequels. 
Or, maybe this is history.  I guess if someone were making a movie about our current world there would be lots and lots of prequels and sequels that had the same essential story.
We're living now in the rise of authoritarianism that we've seen many times in the past.