Do you believe everything will be OK?

Have you ever felt that all was going to be OK, no matter what was stirring around you? A sense of calm when the world seemed to be falling apart?

Not that I'm calm all of the time, we all have our moments ... But, sometimes utter madness on the outside can only be equaled by silence on the inside. The world's gone to hell in a handbag and I feel fine.

Maybe it's my uncommon sense of humor. But, I see irony in the "balancing" act the world has suddenly decided upon. Mother Nature's wrath, protests and rallies for and by the people ... it is time. I mean how long can things really go on in such a state of inequality?

But, honestly it's nothing new ... More like something old made new again. A circle making its rounds.

And come on, I know I'm not the only one who's been thinking this. This is the stuff of history books.

What a great time to be ALIVE!

* There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own. -- Katherine Anne Porter, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist.

* In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny. -- Albert Einstein, a German-born theoretical physicist who discovered the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics.

* Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American lecturer, philosopher, essayist, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

* Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. -- Thomas Merton, a 20th century Anglo-American Catholic writer, a Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist and student of comparative religion.

* There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace. -- Woodrow T. Wilson, the 28th President of the United States and a leader of the Progressive Movement.

* A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. -- William Arthur Ward, author of Fountains of Faith one of America's most quoted writers of inspirational maxims.

Timberly is a staff writer at the Greene County Daily World. She can be reached by e-mail at tferree@gcdailyworld.com or by phone at 1-800-947-4487 or (812) 847-4487.