Good Morning Friends & Neighbors! Hello again Members, Supporters and Visitors to this little hole in the wall on Locals! ELECTRICITY! It was out all day from midnight Friday until almost 7 PM yesterday. SO bound by it, so dependent upon it. Nearly all conveniences depend upon it. Convenience is a gift, a luxury to be frank. Moments like this are times for me step back and be thankful for nearly ALL the things I take for granted and normative in my life that a held together by a loose thread of modernity called electricity. Water still works, jeep still ran - life was just a good and meaningful as ever minus the phone ringing and all local businesses being closed. Less traffic all day - less noise - the price to pay and really the pleasure to gain from the loss of so much convenience. I do feel bad for those whose livelihood depends upon electricity - for them it was an unexpected day off of work, for me it was an invitation to step back and reflect on this amazing time I inhabit, this amazing place I live, and the profound richness of a life my great grandparents could not imagine as something possible for one of their decedents to possess. I am mindful that some lives are truly dependent upon electricity - their health and safety will be the worse for its absence. For them I share a true sorrow for its loss, but not so much for the rest of us who are showered in the convenience of modern life. Convenience - a gift, never a for granted, Convenience - when it drops often our mask do, will be be thankful we possessed it or angry it is gone? I'm no saint - in times past the frustration of its absence would turn me into a complainer if it was gone more than an hour. Time can bring maturity - s smidge of it. On to the quote! Blessed Sunday Friends! Thanks for stopping by and reading and offering your own comments and thoughts.