The past few weeks have been, um…disconcerting, for a number of reasons, and grinning and bearing, standing ground and even doing the right thing have been my postures. Managing differing states of mind, simultaneously, however, is not my strong suit, so, whenever I dwell too long on the irksome, I remind myself (as I sometimes remind certain others), Join the club. It’s called ‘everybody’…*

A dried bud of milk thistle that was (more) beautiful in its day.

*Drew Carey’s response to Kate who complained that her job sucked, whereas he concluded …and we meet at the bar.