Friday the thirteenth comes round and round

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, London bridge is falling down, Jack and Jill fell down a hill, Mother Goose certainly had a dark side!

Everyone and everything falls down again and again and so can the children singing the songs.  No one is ever really gone, or irreparably hurt in a nursery rhyme.

That's not always true in the real world, but the great majority of problems in life are mostly temporary inconveniences.  The dog thinks going upstairs is as good as going out.   My child's first broken bone comes right on the heels of my first big bonus check.  I dare to talk about the prickliness of life at a convention of hedgehogs.

Life's lessons can be overwhelming when they come too close together, but they really are only lessons.  If I learn something from them, even if it is only that life goes on, then I come out on top.

Superstitions are born when people need an outside source to blame for the bad things that happen in life, but regardless of whose fault bad things are as long as there is breath to sing and energy to get back up -- there is hope and hope has done amazing things.

In the light of a new millennium,  lets start to look at Friday the 13th. with the hope and joy of a child, as a day to spring back up and begin again.