The Rebound

You spend much of the week preparing for a sentencing in the brutal beating death of a five year old boy..

                                            and then you see this picture

You spend more of that week preparing for a hearing on the slaughter of an 82 year old women and her fifty four year old son....

                                              and then you see this picture.

You teach a session that includes the mention of an abused child  kept at times in a cage only to come home and see hundreds of children in  cages in America....

                                              and then you see this picture.

You are wrapping up final preparation for a meeting with a defense attorney in a double homicide and there is a phone call that someone forgot to close  a gate and some horses are out...

                                              and then you see this picture.

You realize that the discussion that you had that morning with your wife about taking a trip to Yellowstone can never happen  because there are too many fires to be put out at the horse lot on a near daily basis...

                                              and then you see this picture.

You set down to play music and no matter what you do it does not sound right....

                                              and then you see this picture.

You stand your schedule on its nose and twist it around as if it were doing yoga to accommodate the schedules of  others.... 
 
                                               and then you see this picture.

You find out that you forgot your 34th wedding anniversary because the only  dates that fill your head are the dates that you have to be at conferences, arrange to get horses, goats and hogs transported from here to there and back, make sure that the sales tax is paid on time, make sure that the corporate organizational meeting happens on time, make sure that the horse trailer gets inspected on time, make sure that you have completed research for a presentation that does not involve horses on time, make sure that you complete the book review and magazine article that you are working on on time, and make sure that you remember to have Terry reschedule your eye doctor appointment to another time....

                                                 and then you see this picture.

And you look at the picture for a while and then you go get every thing done that must be done.