When the story gets hard, that's when the story gets good.

Who wants to hear that when things are hard?!

Can you be in this time of difficulty and see the future possibilities?

The phoenix only rises from ashes.

We must keep pushing because as Twain says, "the only way out is through."

Vaclav Havel the leader of the Velvet Revolution in the Czech Republic had the notion of the "parallel polis." The idea that a new government would be built along side the crumbling facade of the old, outdated, regime. Perhaps that's what's happening now -- literally or figuratively. Let's stay tuned and see.