Diamonds and Stones

I live in peaks and valleys. My life is sort of like my golf game,bogeys with birdies and pars thrown in. Yet golf has taught me to handle my ups and downs, it has taught me to be the master of my emotions. With that said, here is how my friend Waits told me he handles his bad days at the Chili Parlor.

"This is about all the bad days in the world. I used to have some little bad days, and I kept them in a little box. And one day, I threw them out into the yard. "Oh, it's just a couple little innocent bad days." Well, we had a big rain. I don't know what it was growing in but I think we used to put eggshells out there and coffee grounds, too. Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em!"

— Tom Waits