Sounds like Pat awoke to the truth and beauty of a situation, if you ask me.

Keep it up, Pat, sometimes takes a thick skin in this age, as I'm sure you've found out on occasion.

Optimism is often mistaken by quite a few as having some sort of sinister lining to it, part and parcel of what passes for education in our era, too, classes purported to be on Critical Thiking these days have nothing to due with Thinking Critically but rather with being critical. Thank you, Alinsky, but no thanks.

And Pat stated the case admkrably well, IMO -- optimism is indeed a discipline -- but those of us who practice the art and science of becoming your own word wouldn't have it any other way.


--Mac