By Michael Lemmer
September 2025
Summer slowly slouches away. You can feel it. The days are getting shorter. The nights are getting longer. There’s the whisper of a chill in the air. The Summer of 2025 is Spent. Happy Equinox!
Time slip-sliding away — Like The Sands In An Hourglass. Before you know it, the trees will be bare and the Fresh Pow will be flying. The tank-tops turn into parkas.
Sometimes it can be hard to catch your breath through all the hustle and bustle of these changing seasons. And through these changing times. Sometimes it’s only when we pause for a moment and look back that we can truly see what we’ve been through, and how far we have come.
Despite all the major issues we face ahead, despite the terrible tragedies the Mainstream Media has inundated us with, we need to try to remember that Life is Good. A Brightly Blazing Beautiful actually. A precious gift not to be squandered on political trivialities. Every morning, I try to remember this — to savor my countless blessings for a moment before facing the tasks and trials of the Day Ahead.
Another habit involves the end of each Busy Day; during that peaceful, quiet time when all that can be done has been done. It’s during that time that I ask myself, “What Did You Do Today To Make The World A Better Place?”
It can be any little thing done to make the day a little brighter. Like the old “Pay It Forward” idea, where you buy the meal of the person behind you in line. Or something as simple as
holding the door for someone. Or offering a smile and a “Have A Great Day” to the stressed out clerk at the store or on the phone. Or picking up trash down by
the river or in the woods. Everything we do Matters, and it All Adds Up.
Imagine a world where the primary focus of every sentient being is how they can further improve it. Where the foremost thought in everyone’s mind is how they can bring some Joy and Love to the people they interact with throughout each day. What would that world look like?
To quote Charlie Daniels:
“Lift your light high enough to brighten the path for those whose lights are flickering.
Let’s all make the day count.”
In other words,
We’re All In This Together.
Don’t Fear the Darkness, because with
All of Our Lights Shining Together,
We Damn Sure Got This!