What is the most powerful thing I can do at the moment? Well for me that would be writing to you, of course. And that is what is going to happen. Have no idea what I am going to write about but that never stopped me before.

Which reminds me that we are coming up on a thousand posts here at the old blog. How are we going to celebrate that? I need to think on that and fortunately we are a few weeks away so there is time. 985 posts, just looked it up.

OK, how about a story right now. This may fit in nicely. I wrote this up earlier today on a comment on FaceBook. It is memory of just an hour spent at the local Dairy Queen when we had a DQ on our little island. It was probably a fall day, the season we are most prone to wind storms and the resulting power outages. I was there having lunch and the place was crowded at usual. It was then owned by a great couple and was in some ways the center of the community. Joan, the wife was there on duty when the lights went off and she had some funky temporary lighting rigged up and proceeded to star in a fashion show with all the odds and ends in the lost and found box. Hilarious, right? I don’t know, maybe you had to be there but what a great way to respond to what the day throws at you.

And this was also on FaceBook, a quote from one of our presidents, from an era before heroes became out of vogue:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

Well, there it is, maybe we can all could respond to a moment today to be a hero is some way, shape or form. Jump into the arena and do the do the fashion show, big loves, Felipe.