” The last day of the old year was one of those bright, cold, dazzling winter days, which bombard us with their brilliancy, and command our admiration but never our love” , Lucy Maud Montgomery
I am now on the west coast of Canada in beautiful British Columbia. Leaving Nova Scotia in the cold, I had hoped that Vancouver would be much warmer for my angry muscles. They just don’t like the bitterness of east coast winters. Alas! It is freezing cold here and it snowed, plus there is ice, making walking treacherous. Vancouver is close to the American city of Seattle so all you Canadian and American west coasters are suffering and I am in it with you too! Climate change and all the crazy weather patterns make for unpredictable weather, wherever we are. Added to this stress? The holidays, phew! Too much for those of us with fibromyalgia. Our emotional sensitivities are on high alert. The world has turned topsy turvy these last several years and it is difficult to be hopeful about the future. But, negative thoughts are not what we need as we approach ’09!
” There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in”, Leonard Cohen
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it” , Lena Horne
“Once it is understood that sufferings cannot be compared, then it is possible to speak of different sufferings in the same story, because there is no comparison”, Arthur W. Frank
re up again within us”, Gaston Bachelard
“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please”, Mark Twain
“Bridge is essentially a social game, but unfortunately it attracts a substantial number of antisocial people”, Alan Truscott

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences”, Audre Lorde 
“I’m not confused, I’m just well mixed”, Robert Frost 
“Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it” , George Bernard Shaw 

