I’m headed off to golf with a buddy today. It’s been some time since we’ve done this, but I’m up for it. I’ve been golfing with this particular friend for decades now. He was one of the first people I went out with. That was in the mid 1980’s. So yeah, we’ve been doing this for a bit of time.

This particular trip is one that’s been scheduled and cancelled quite a few times. The schedules we had kept changing. Both of us got sick. There were as many reasons that we didn’t golf as there were reasons that we wanted to golf. But we’re going today…finally!

My recovery has the same type of thing happen. I’ve got things that I look forward to that get put off or changed. That’s life, Pal! We don’t always get what we want. The wise philosopher Sir Mick of Jagger actually said that we can’t get what we want. So there you have it. Dreams are good. Goals are awesome. But the thing we live with is reality. It’s all in how we handle it. So here we go. Let’s golf. And like life, I’ll tee up the ball, give it a good whack, and watch it all…

—Rise Up!!