When the Tough Times Get too Tough, Its Time to Find your Trout

There are times that things seem to always go from bad to worse and from worse to something ever less enjoyable, times when the Book of Job looks like a significant improvement on your current predicament. When it is easy to give up hope and decide all is lost and to wallow in self pity, 15 years ago today the voters of King County decided not to fund a baseball stadium. It seemed so very likely our team would sold by Thanksgiving and baseball in Seattle would be done. I remember being very bummed, but deciding to continue to hope and if baseball was leaving town to enjoy every last bit of it. You see during times of hardship and despair you are faced with two paths, the first to give in and be buried, the second is to make the best of it. Option one tends to leave you like the fellows in tonight's photo. Option two allows for enjoyment, things may not be getting better, but why should you not enjoy Luis Sojo's swinging bunt home run, why not stop and enjoy the fog lingering on a pond at sunrise, or the goldfinch in your front yard. The good stuff in the world is still around, sometimes we just need to look a bit harder for it, or in some cases to remember to recognize it when it manifests itself.