Sometimes you just have to:
shovel after the parade.

I heard this recently and exploded into laughter. It was in reference to Suleman who just had octuplets, which is not a laughing matter, but the expression caught me as very funny! It made me think about what you have to do sometimes...

• accept the losses Phrank reflecting
  
• celebrate victories Brother John,b-ball champs, '59
  


• throw the dinner down the disposal



• eat humble pie


• crawl out from under the bar stool


• tread water for awhile


• head for deeper water VP, Channel Islands, CA
  
• sweep up the broken glass
  
• get out vacuumJD vacuuming
  
• join in the pillow fight
  
• take 2 aspirin and call the doctor
  
• get up outta bed
  
• remember the way we were PDad & MLou, Wedding 9/4/4
  
• imagine how we can be
  
• see the possibilities JD with twins at Butler University
• walk before I run
  
• swing for the fences VP
  
• dust off my pants as I head back to the dugout
  
• punt
  
• take the charge
  
• shut my mouth JD with the girls
  
• say the hard thing
  
• forget to omit
  
• ask forgiveness for the things I have not done that I should have done


• ask forgiveness for the things I did do that I should not have done


• forgive someone even though they do not deserve it


• forgive myself even though I do not deserve it
  
• avoid the puddles after a rainstorm



Turtle playing in a fountain in L.A.

• splash in the puddles after a rainstorm


• share your umbrella


• shovel the snow away from my door
• put on my gear and trudge through the mess JD in the snow '09
  
• use my last ounce
  
• let go
  
• hold onTurtle, hanging in there!
  
• use a thicker picker upper
  
• spray some febreeze
  
• share a rideTurtle at Santa Monica Pier
  
• add some a garlic
  
• what's your sometimes you just got to?