Stop and Goethe...

"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”

- Goethe

Today worked me over pretty good, enough to leave me wiping tears away with my wife's blouse. There has been better days, and surely, there are worse. Thank Jebus for Christmas Specials, Goethe and little girls...and for big ones too. Thanks June for picking me up whenever I fall apart.