Hope Springs Eternal...(As Long As the Weather Stays So Nice!)

It seems to me that no matter how bad things get in life, spring weather just makes everything seem a little bit better, a little bit brighter. No matter how grave a situation, a beautiful spring day can just put a bit of a more positive spin on things. I don't know, maybe I suffer from a Mary Poppins complex or something. "Just a spoonful of sugar...." I could be jobless, homeless, all alone in life and along comes a beautiful spring day and I'm happy that I can spend it outside rather than stuck behind a desk looking out a window and only wishing I could be outside. With no job, I can be out in it...all day long! Homeless? Well, I get to sleep in a park with a gentle breeze blowing, or under the stars on the beautiful pedestrian bridge! Who is luckier than I? All alone? I have all the birds to not only keep me company, but to sing to me!! Who could ask for anything more?!

Speaking of birds, I am finally over my fear of the hawks scooping up the cats and stealing them. I just got over that this week, so...quite an accomplishment. Remember how I said (in one of my first blog entries) that a neighbor had warned me about the hawks (and coyotes) around here, and that I better be careful about letting the cats outside? Well, that really instilled a new fear in me, and every time I've seen a large bird lately, I've cringed a little inside. I fell right into that alarmist syndrome thing. Jumped onto that bandwagon right away. It took a month, but one day I realized a couple of things: I grew up in the country and there were hawks all around, all the time. I had cats back then also and they were only outdoor cats. Never once did any of those cats get taken by a hawk. Secondly, out of all the hawks I've spotted in my lifetime, not once have I ever seen a hawk carrying around a cat in its beak. I've seen hawks in trees, I've seen hawks flying...and never seen a cat dangling there, at the hawk's mercy, being dragged across the sky. So, just as quickly as it had come, the fear left! Quite an accomplishment for one day.

I also feel better about my employment situation. I just think that, by March, I'll be employed somewhere full-time. It doesn't matter that every day the news tells about the increase in the unemployment percentages, or all the new closings of old businesses, or even all the lay-offs and over-crowded soup kitchens. Or that the funds for dispersing unemployment checks are being depleted. Nope. Obama might come on the television tonight and tell us what a crisis we're in and that the light at the end of the tunnel is far off...but my light is right around the corner! I'll have a full-time job by this time next month, of that I'm sure...all courtesy of the spring-like weather!!

And as long as this weather stays this wonderful for now, I don't care if I do get emails every couple of days from Yahoo! Personals that say, "DJ, we've found 0 new matches for you!" I have the birds singing to me, remember?