Discipline or Disappointment-or an Evolution of Sorts

Funny I really have been trying to skew towards the positive lately even with some of the things my mind somehow reads with certainly a lot more hope than there's been. Yesterday Don and I got up and had breakfast in the place across the way and made a friend. It all came with our discussion about being election alcoholics and a woman across from us told us she left her fiance and job because of Trump--maybe it's a little more of an epidemic than we are really comfortable acknowledging. This woman was having brunch with a girl we ended up befriending, walking home with, meeting her pups. We all commiserated on the election, the state of things, the fact we had dogs as our kids and maybe that was more of a thing than many want to admit. We drank, and a lot, finally having that co-misery populated with just more than me and Don. Interesting as an adult you probably meet people capable of the same social capacities you might have. You talk about dogs and dog dates and writing letters to the city with the child-less community and after school programs and other ways to get your children out ...