Love, laugh, cry, I heard in my head. Maybe it's sarcasm or maybe it's a little wisdom leaking into my head because I heard these words next: serve, don't take yourself too seriously, and release. How I arrived at that second set of words took years.

Using Walt Disney's Pinocchio's nose, and, as one of the 'glass half full' people, I had to find an optimistic side to this weird election.

The day was a somewhat ordinary day until I saw the light hit the grey cement. Instantly my thoughts were of ancestors...