We need to laugh more

I've been thinking about you all week and how time moves so quickly. That's both good and bad. It means we see each other soon, but it also means that you grow into your own life so fast it's almost a blur.

Since Dad's birthday's coming up, I got us tickets to see Bill Cosby. I think we all need to laugh more. A lot more! If time speeds up as we get older, then there's no sense spending it being miserable. I think it will be fun.

This week, I haven't had much fun with church business. Susan F. is really quite a negative person, and she's been micromanaging everything. You can't do this; you can't do that. Why did I do XYZ without asking the Vestry? She was making me a psychological mess, until I realized that only I can mess myself up psychologically. She's very temporary, and all this will pass.

I heard on NPR today about an interesting book you might want to get. It's about Ayn Rand - Jennifer Burns (“Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right”)- and how conservatives are so threatened by her writing. I don't remember if you've read any of Rand's stuff - Atlas Shrugged or the Fountainhead - but they are potentially life-changing books. Not for the conservative right, I guess.

Sent you off a package today, so check for it. (in the next several months?)

Love you.