had a good weekend....

I had a great weekend. I spent almost one whole day of it at my kitchen table, playing with paint and paper and glue. A friend came over with a bottle of wine around 5 and this continued over pasta. Saturday I watched the UTFI presentations and did some socializing. I've stopped working on the weekends, for the most part. I don't get the paper either.

While I spent the weekend having a nice time, terrible things happened in the world.
I can't get this out of my mind:

Death toll from cyclone in Myanmar could reach 10,000
or this...
Death toll in Amazon rises to 17 in ferryboat sinking
or this...
Somalis riot over food prices

My life is so good and I count on my freedom to go to the store if I need to. Do I really even know how lucky I am, how lucky most of us are? How little we need and how much we have, keeps us all pretty comfortable and easily annoyed about things that don't matter at all. Are we lucky or are we just comfortable and a bit dim? I'm not sure....

When I was in my 20's I filled out my peace corp application, started getting references, then found my life would take a different turn, I became a parent. Maybe it's time to dust off that application again....