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Yes indeed, I’m a big nerd. Happy Pi Day!

This fish really does need a bicycle, but not today because it snowed. Maybe that is why it is diving. When it warms up the fish will surface and watch a Spring Classic or something.

For now he is just floating along and eating some worms. No one said it was a glamorous life.

I was going to just smash the leaf and let all the pieces stay in a form similar to the original leaf, but these leaves just don’t crumble the way I expected. So instead I arranged them in a pattern like the original shape. But broken things often don’t stay the way they break. The leaves will blow in the wind losing their pattern and devolving into chaos.

Tragedy can do that to us. Hopefully, in the end we can put ourselves back together again, but some do and some don’t. I think most of us fall somewhere in the middle. We break up and put ourselves back together over and over. Some parts get stronger and some weaker. Sometimes pieces blow away completely and other times they blow into a pile all together.

Since I took pictures of candy last week I thought that it was only fair to show the aftermath of what eating all that candy would look like. Fortunately, I didn’t eat it all. In fact in a few days I would venture to guess that this candy will be a lot like that bowl of ribbon candy that your grandma used to have on her coffee table. You know, the one that no one ever ate but she offered you a piece of every time you came over. And the first time you tried to take one but got the whole bowl.

In case you wondered, I took this picture and there isn’t really a top or bottom when you do something like this, but as I cropped it and turned it around, it just didn’t look right in any other orientation. Kind of funny how that is.

Not sure what the deal is with me and candy the last couple of days. But unlike the hard candy from yesterday, these ones let light through. It’s kind of interesting how you can see the light and dark spots in the candy coating.

Not a lot of meaning in the picture today, just a pile of candy.

Sometimes I have to remind myself that people don’t just suck. People make that hard sometimes. Like the guy at Costco today who was just a jerk for the sake of being a terrible person. He thought that being terribly inconsiderate was funny. You never can tell what a person is going through and sometimes you have to give them the benefit of the doubt because what we see isn’t always the whole story.

This week has been a rough one, but I’m not sure you would know it if you met me on the street. It’s always rough when you hit the anniversary of the death of a loved one. I’m sure that I’m not the only one that has put on a good face and tried to deal with things silently. This isn’t limited to loss, we all have challenges and challenging times that no one knows about.

In this world of social media where we can jump to conclusions and condemn others anonymously before we have all the facts, maybe we can remember from time to time to be a little kinder to those around us who may be in need of a shoulder to cry on or a listening ear.

Sometimes things are obvious when you know what to look for. When you don’t know what you are seeking, it can be a bit harder to find. I’m not sure just how easy to spot it is here, it jumps out at me because I put it in there.

Birds. There are so many snide remarks that I could make here, and after the day I’ve had, believe me I want to. But instead I think I will just focus on these two birds sitting high above it all and watching with interest all that goes on below. Sometimes it would be nice to just sit above it all and watch without having to get ones hands dirty living on the ground and dealing with it all.

I think I’m going to go sit, like a bird on the couch and watch the rest of the day go by in peace.

Today is three years since Matt died. So there is a piece of me missing still that I can’t ever replace no matter how many parts I can put together. I went to House of Watts and rode bikes tonight. It is never quite the same riding without Matt.

I think I’m not alone in missing someone that cancer took way too soon. So while today I’m feeling it, this is also for everyone else who is going to have this same day sometime later (or earlier) this year (and every year).