Hope

Sometimes life is so sweet it's like a candy cane, one delicious piece wound around another so tightly it seems like it is all one big whole. All happy and perfect and wonderful - - and scary, because if it is that simple it could just as easily be all awful and dark and sad.

Most of the time life is a bit bitter sweet and somehow that is a little better all around. The sweet feels sweeter and the bad is ameliorated by the good.

The trick is to focus on the sweetness, or the best, without forgetting about the bitter and bad. That way hope has a way of finding its way in between everything and when there is hope, all is bearable.