How Can You Control This?

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot control.

This.

This is the hardest part for anyone.

This is why we need meditation.

Daily.

Because for most of us, control is all we got.

And when things go out of whack, we get discombobulated.

Cattywumpus.

There are two things that are certain.

Taxes and Death.

Uncle Sam is going to get his, and the Grim Reaper waits for no one.

So those two things are two worries off the list.

You’re going to pay taxes, and one day, hopefully a long time from now, you are going to die.

Let us add two more certainties to the list.

Two more set in stone statements that will hereafter be known as “four things are certain.”

Traffic.

There are four things in life that are certain.

Taxes, Death and Traffic. (number four in a moment)

We live twelve minutes from downtown Little Rock, which the brain trust at the Arkansas Department of Transportation has cut off from civilization.