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ten. It is so depressing, always telling me what to do. I hate it when somebody tells me what to do. My calendar looks at me and I look back and it simply says, do this. And there it is in black and white. What else can I do?
• Without actually thinking the issue through carefully, I opened up my calendar and discovered something quite startling. It takes a whole lot to startle me. In fact, it takes a whole lot just to get me started on anything. However, I looked at my calendar and was woefully startled.
• I noticed on my calendar it was the month of May. What happened to March and April? In fact, what happened to January and February?
• I should have gotten a hint with all the rain we had in April. Remember that little line that goes, "April showers bring May flowers"? While I was focused on the showers in April, I did not notice that April was exhausting itself and May was sneaking around the corner to surprise me.
• Boy, did it surprise me.
• I guess I was just too occupied during the month of April to realize that April has a time limit. April has 30 days and when those 30 days are kaput, April is over and it is May.
• I do not think May is any different from any other month. It is just that I wish the months would slow down a little bit. It seems at the beginning of the month every

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