Wednesday, February 15

My wife and I’s 20^th wedding anniversary.  We celebrate with a morning of exchanged cards and time with our daughter and beagle.  Then off to our jobs.

In the evening my daughter reads out loud her homework assignment, stories of myth and legend.   One story is of the creation of woman from Greek mythology, the story of Pandora and her box.  I had forgotten that she had managed to close it in time, after opening and releasing so much pestilence, that she did shut it on a creature that would have imbedded in humans the ability to know their future troubles in advance.  The story suggests that had this occurred we would have certainly been doomed, for to have known our future challenges would have destroyed hope and hope is what helps us survive.