I’m telling you…over the last month I’ve tried to, as they sing in “The Life of Brian” Look on the Bright side of Life. (whiiiwhoo…whoo whoo whoo whoo)…but when a  crazy lady in a custody battle threw her kids off the Sellwood Bridge in Portland a few weeks back and a father pulled the same exit strategy to parenthood and life a week later,  I moved swiftly back into the People Innately Suck camp again. Can we somehow convince these people to exit first and leave the innocent behind, please?

I’m on a desperate search for  people and information that contributes to a greater good. You are out there. Bring me something uplifting and real to share that isn’t a Twitter tip, a video of your cat, or a marketing trick to get me to buy something that we both know I don’t need.

Knock me on my ass with value. Get me to say, wow, this makes me smarter and empowers me to help others. Introduce me to people, causes and stories of gut-level inspiration.

Until then…I remain a reluctant pessimist, mystified by shitty behavior that lives at the DNA-level in some, is well-coached in others or so masked in self-absorption that it goes unrecognized. I’m confident that fear, ignorance and weakness of mind and spirit are at the root of this.

Let’s turn the tide together with ways to quell the concern, smarten up the masses and feed the soul with something that sustains. Here’s a little something to start the ball rolling.

Bob Dylan
Shelter From the Storm

Cheers, Ev. T.C.P.