The young man with the tam-o’-shanter

wanders around the park,

a cloud of balloons follows him wherever he goes,

one by one the small children come and go away,

with their balloons softly tied to their little fingers.

Optimism is a deliberate attitude where we chose to contemplate life and its people, through their best lights, colors, and mantels. It is a predisposition to look, search and find, the better angle and perspective, on everything and everyone.

Over time our faces become a reflection of our lives and what we are comprised of inside. Over time the mask of youth fades away  as we bear the marks and scars of the kind of life and the way we have experienced it. Like a fingerprint, in a well-weathered face,  every little crevice, corner, ridge, wrinkle...

Life is like a circus with the same exact cast of characters popping out of its book pages. We are surrounded by “ringmasters” pulling strings, building, and running civilization. We all have a bot of these characters inside...

We are all on this together, we are as ever one. Make it we are going to, physically distant but closer than ever before. We are going to make it through, Together, as ever, as one. It silently spreads... ruthlessly attempting to undermine our Society, threatening the way we live as we know it, all at once.

In the realm of Violins, Violas, and Cellos, there was once an art-crafter extraordinaire -A Luthier- to whom there was no equal in the whole wide world. His name was Leo Schoeffer. He was born in a small town called Mittenwald in the region of Bavaria, Southern Germany.

A quasi super-human strength. Resilience lies at the core, at the very essence of the human spirit. it is a vital and virtuous existential condition, comprised of sheer character strength and awesome, utter willfulness. Resilience is the untamable drive, burning fire, unflinching defiance,

If you want to live a blissful life, pay attention to "the little details" both on the receiving and giving ends of it. But not the kind where "the devil is in the..." as those are easy and hidden in plain sight and are usually expected rules, norms or stipulations, we either follow, ignore, break or circumvent. So, they are narrow in human nature and binary in their scope, as they simply bite you or they don't.

We travel through life from the moment we arrive on planet earth. Wherever we are, whatever we do, we are always going somewhere as there is always a destination. But the journey is where life resides, not the destination.

To be inspired is to be continuously and blissfully happy; to inhale profoundly and feel really, really good inside and sigh in joy to the sweet taste of purely and simply being alive.