Old friends never die…they just fade away. Only memories remain. *** Today I said goodbye to an old friend that passed. It was unexpected. But hey, aren’t they all? Ask anyone, “Say, think you’ll be next to pass?” You get a shrug of the shoulders, a roll of the eyes. Nobody expects to be the …

Satisfaction is easy to get. Only you don’t get it, it gets you. *** The world is in turmoil. Nobody is satisfied. Dissatisfaction everywhere you look. Protests, bank runs, people running pillar to post, anger in the headlines, fear in the streets. Is there a solution to the dilemma? Yes. Satisfaction. It’s not that hard …

Off with the old, on with the new. Nature turns the page. * * * It’s a quiet Saturday afternoon. I stand on the back patio peeling a last-year’s orange. I watch last-year’s leaves falling effortlessly from the giant water oak overhead. It’s their time to say goodbye. The acorns already have. Shards of sunlight …