What lies around the bend

My mother was always optimistic. But, my father was not always as optimistic

Sometimes, like my father, I slip toward the dark side and see the glass as half-empty and cover myself with depression.

And, then, sometimes, I can talk to myself and convince myself that it is so much more pleasant to follow my mother’s sunny example.

I like this optimistic quote, which decorates a mug that my son Jay gave me. “I don’t know what lies around the bend, but I’m going to believe that the best does,” wrote Lucy Maud Montgomery in Anne of Green Gables.

–Joy