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It is Friday? Peace, Love and what to do?

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I started yesterday, thinking about tomorrow!  I kept wondering what I would do, how I would feel, how I would behave waking up realizing our government and opportunity has changed.    Mother Nature decided to help me.  She reminded me that as strong as we humans are she still owns our environment, our skies, and our earth.  Her pallet of colors in the morning sky were unusually stunning.  There was a layer of clouds between the sun rising and her blue sky creating a new pallet of color I had not seen.  Here is a link to some of those pictures, I even took some from the car on my way back as I was in awe which as someone lucky enough to do this most mornings is hard to do.  https://www.dropbox.com/sh/085z1dc1amvcfie/AACSHC5TmFTFfS16CjieYcnta?dl=0 I sit here with some angst, stress and a down heart and some odd optimism as I look to Friday so here is a little more on how I feel and my own observations.  First, strange optimism , I watched some of the confir

So, How do you feel this morning Mr. Silverman?

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So, How do you feel this morning Mr. Silverman? It is about 7 AM on Sunday the 8th, 48 degrees and chilly, so I watch the sunrise from our living room.  Palm trees swaying in the breeze and thinking about the past week and especially Friday. To spend Friday afternoon, of the first week of the new year, watching a tragedy unfold 15 minutes from my home is surreal.  To watch the scene of a gun man shooting arriving passengers, many I am sure here for a holiday or a cruise, just because they were there.  Not sure how he chose Fort Lauderdale, or if they will ever find a motive beyond mental illness and some voices in his head, but this baggage claim area and the Delta Terminal is somewhere I have been I am sure 100's of times if not more in the almost 25 years I have been living in and coming to Fort Lauderdale. I was truly touched by all the people texting me, and reaching out on Facebook to make sure I, Frank and Miss Belle were OK.  Was just a few weeks ago they came to t