The Choice of Joy: Day 32, Sunshine

The sun is shining, and according to weather predictions, temperatures will stay above freezing for at least a week in the region where I live.  Some days' temps will even reach into the 70s.  Joy!

The variables that must be just right for us to have a good day seem to continually mount with each passing year.  Will the battery on my cell phone hold?  Am I going to have to go buy a new computer to keep up?  I need to check my facebook page, and why do my friends (of course never me) have to enter such mundane posts?  How can I protect from internet predators invading my privacy?  Did Sarah Palin say something today so irritating that I could not ignore it? 

So the sun shining or not shining seems so simple a thing to consider.  I like returning to that simplicity.   I am not one of those who look back on the 1950s as some golden age, but I am glad I lived years before cell phones, computers, facebook and lack of intelligence being an advantage for getting media attention.

Okay, today I will gear up my Skype and get to visit with my grandchildren face to face even though we are separated by hundreds of miles.  I would not want to return a time when such technology was not available.  Then McCarthy got the attention rather than Palin. 

Still, I am glad I had those years when I could predict my disposition for the day by peeping through the window blinds and did not have to plug in some device, enter a password or punch up an app.  And I am glad that I had years when the presence of a sun not hidden by clouds meant you could pretty much count on a good day.