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And now back to our regularly scheduled show…  The Magic Power of Bananas: Peel the Magic.

Yeppers.  There are days like those.  It feels like a wrench hit the working monkey.  Or is it… someone threw a monkey wrench in the works.

Either way… when the monkey looks this bad…. when there simply is no sock left in his monkey butt … it can only mean that things got so crazy… even the bananas left the bunch.

BUT.  But, But, but….. here is the thing to remember.  When we are having the crappiest of days… when things seem to being going in the wrong direction… WE have the power not to make it any worse.

We have the power to find a way to make….. at least….  part of it better.  WE are capable of seeing at least one good thing about that day.  Any day.  I truly believe we do.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. – Albert Camus

I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful – for all of it.  –  Kristin Armstrong