The last time I posted what I percieved to be the positive side of things (best Christmas prezzie thread, I think), one of the things I listed was that nobody I knew had died (as far as I was aware). Turned out I was wrong, and someone I knew and cared about had died. And this, of course, at the end of a long string of other, no less devasating losses.

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but I think I'm going to take a break from looking at things from the positive side, and maybe just wallow in some negativity for a little while. Right now it feels like the safe thing to do.

( ...although I am sitting here listening to The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams and marvelling at the fact that there is still some beauty in the world. But don't anybody mistake that for being positive, because it ain't.)