The title of this post is the title of a book by Thich Nhat Hanh, which I am reading these days to help get through what’s going on in my world and in the world around me.

Lately, the storms that blew across the country and touched down in Philadelphia, where I live, have made things difficult for me and my little dog, Pepper. In addition to dealing with the weather extremes, Pepper just got diagnosed as diabetic. But, as I often say, I have good, bad luck. The bad luck almost always has a positive note. Last week I shed lots of tears, processing this new phase of Pepper’s life and confronting the fact that she likely is coming closer to her end. She’s been in my life since 2015, a little over 10 years. My best guess is she’s 14 years old, an old girl even though she’s a little one.

But, the upside to her new condition is that she loves the prescription food AND she takes her insulin shot with hardly a flinch. Today, we get her set up with a monitor that attaches to her back to track her blood sugar. There it is: good, bad luck.

The world around me, as I see it, is continuing to be marred by the tumult fomented by the current administration in the White House. I am still so very angry that people are suffering unnecessarily and that Renee Good and Alex Pretti had to die in their efforts to resist.

The renowned Vietnamese Buddhist monk, whose teachings had global reach, was also a peace activist, prolific author, and poet. I share his ideas here not for comfort, but for perspective.

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