… today’s gonna be a good, good day.
Sometimes Melbourne just hands you a perfect autumn day. Crisp sunlight slowly melts the garden’s overnight dew drench. Magpies and corellas serenade the duck-egg sky.
On a day like today the hamster wheel turns itself. Everything gets done without effort and nothing trivial matters.
I know:
- Today, Gothic Pre’s parent-teacher-pupil meetings will fly effortlessly by. I will smile at the congratulatory admiration of her Maths and Science teacher. I will parry the sour-mouthed criticism of her PE and Health teacher. I have taken on PE teachers in the past, and this one will think twice about giving Gothic another crappy report comment when I’m finished with her. She’ll think three times about how she manages my child in future.
- Today, a dear friend’s court ordeal will go in her favour, and she can look forward to a life free from her ex’s gratuitous nastiness. He will be ordered to reach into his overloaded pockets and contribute to his child’s medical and educational needs – even if it doesn’t suit him to spend money on his child when his holiday home needs redecorating/his investment properties require maintenance.
- Today, another dear friend’s baby will grow just a little bit more. Her doctor’s back from his vacation, rested and ready for surgical brilliance. Any time soon he will deliver her long-awaited and hard-fought-for child, achieving perfection so that she recovers fully and quickly, ready to enjoy parenthood.
- Today, a faraway dear friend will be glorious. Her black dog will sit quietly in the dim recesses of its kennel, not even showing its nose. She will keep her many balls in the air and sit back with a glass of wine at the end of it, with a feeling of satisfied accomplishment and invincibility, before sleeping long, dreamlessly and deeply.
- Today, hundreds of people in North America will decide it’s time to take control of their health. They will buy another dear friend’s product by the tens of thousands.
Today, we can take on the world and win.
Today’s the day, let’s live it up.