Rick Beeman

  Short answer: “I don’t know.”  Longer more contemplative answer I think Im starting to figure out the difference once again between happiness and joy.  Being happy might be overstating it a bit.  I’m more at Peace with a little Hope thrown in for good measure.  But the spurt of happiness doesn’t make any sense.  I shouldn’t be hopeful.  Almost everything went wrong for me today.  Some of it was a result of my mistakes and some of it not.  But the frustration and disappointment had different peaks from morning, to afternoon to evening.  Seemingly nothing went right.  Then inexplicably I felt a peace come over me in the early evening when I should have been at my absolutely lowest moment.  Then I started to get hopeful.  Did something happen to me to cause this?  Not really it’s still mostly bad with a few bright flashes thrown in there.  The only thing keeping me going right now, other than my children, is my un...

Today was a great day.  Do I dare say I had Happy moments?  Sure, I dare.  I had a lot of happy moments today.  It's such a respite from the Debbie Downer phase that I've largely been in this year.  2025 has sucked.  But today was a respite in the dark.   I am a child of the 80's (born in 1968) but I graduated high school in 86 and went to college 86-90.  It was one of the best decades of my life, I think second only to the 2010's.  I do believe the 80s was the best decade ever with an honorable mention to the 50's and roaring 20's in the US.  Interestingly the best decades seemed to have come the decade after major world wars.  The 80s gave us Reagan, MTV, Spielberg movies, Big Hair, and Apple Computers.  I was also a big fan of the music of the 80s.  Music was very important to me during my formative years.  I had already seen most of my favorite bands in concert previously (Styx, Reo Speedwagon, Loverboy) But ...