Dream big or die a little every day. Pa

I love inspirational tales. A smile inspires conversation and an open heart always has room for one more friend. And there are people out there full of inspirational stories about their lives. Anyone that’s made it to adulthood (past juvenile delinquency which in many cases is a protracted state of puberty) deserves to be heard. The rest are just part of immaturity’s malingering menagerie (a herd of hoodlums to be exact).

Maturity is the melodic tone of a wise and compassionate minstrel that put’s an audience at ease and pay’s the teller due attention. I adore heartfelt tales of suffering and success - especially those told without excess. There’s something homeopathic about the truth - it’s a tincture of great humility and genuine honor. Children’s tales are exaggerated - adult tales are engaging.

I hear them all the time: couples married for 75-years; people living past the century mark; individuals overcoming terminal sentences; devotions of love and loss; unheralded heros of unblemished integrity; family and friend of incomparable intimacy; careers of distinguished loyalty and simple and sincere happiness. And the one thread that seamlessly ties all these tales together: hope*.

If your bubble bursts be sure it has enough hot air to keep you afloat. Pa

A fork in the road
A pie in the sky
A leap of faith
Just-Deserts Pa

*Hope

v., hoped, hop·ing, hopes.

v.intr.

1. To wish for something with expectation of its fulfillment.
2. Archaic. To have confidence; trust.

v.tr.

1. To look forward to with confidence or expectation: We hope that our children will be successful.
2. To expect and desire. See synonyms at expect.

n.

1. A wish or desire accompanied by confident expectation of its fulfillment.
2. Something that is hoped for or desired: Success is our hope.
3. One that is a source of or reason for hope: the team’s only hope for victory.
4. often Hope Christianity. The theological virtue defined as the desire and search for a future good, difficult but not impossible to attain with God’s help.
5. Archaic. Trust; confidence.