HOPE is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul,

Emily Dickinson

OK, I get it. I have received enough feedback from readers that the 'Fish' is becoming dreery. (Fish is from Steve). I guess I'm just caught up watching the debacle from the sidelines. The Obama supporters are not likely to change there opinion even in the face of eveidence. The moderates that wanted change have learned that we should all be careful of what we wish for. The NYSE has changed. That's the kind of change that scares me. I retreating from change to hope.

So...in light of the whirlwinds around us:

From US News & World Report is an article on being happy in times of recession:

Amid the torrent of academic studies coming out on the subject of happiness, one finding remains consistent and, well, unsurprising: We are happier in flush times than in down periods. And as a result of experiencing the deepest recession in decades, we are now a bunch of really unhappy campers.

Read more here: USNews - Happy

And for the literary, a web inglenook with a panoply of the most beautiful words in the english language:

http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/100_most_beautiful_words.html

Do you agree?

And for the Dr. Evil's in the community, the henchmens helper. It allows monitoring the world before the One Meeeliun dollar demand not to destry the world. Check out the evilmeter (metric). Looks pretty grim.

http://henchmanshelper.com/

Enjoy the day. Don't watch the Dow.

Life

HOPE is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I ’ve heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

Emily Dickinson

See the following links for more on Hope
http://www.darshaksanghavi.com/columns/downsideofhope.pdf
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12822761)

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions
Earl Gray Stevens