From Jim: When you live and work on a ranch, you better have a good capacity for laughter. Around here, the constant state of "Murphy's Law" is about all that's constant. The list of "what now?" is a growing and amusing issue. You quickly learn that any celebration of any successful task will surely bring about retribution on a massive scale-epic even! This can either get you down or tickle your funny bone! I find the amusement of it all to be more comfortable. Does that mean that there are only smiles, giggles and good-natured comments-Oh No! The senseless outbursts of rancor and railing against the outrageous fortunes of cosmic injustice are all part of the fun-Unless you're Donna. Then there's the attempt to make it all good with the universe, which can be it's own delightful theater. You see, the moment is not where the humor lies, it's the end of the day, when the time to put it all to rest is near, that your own silliness can really be appreciated. The ebb and flow of problems and problem solving, breakage and repairs, successes and failures, frustration and laughter make for a very rich content of daily life. The "horse sense" of a sense of humor comes from years of finding out how important perspective is. In the very long run, most of the things that just drive us crazy really don't matter anyway. We are a funny species. We just don't always appreciate how funny we are!
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