Your Tra La La Quizo Update

At the request of Dr. Chill, this week's e-mail contains no negative emotion whatsoever. We here at Quizo Central, for this week at least, are 100% in the Hooray for Everything camp.

So, this past weekend, I was walking through the snow-dappled landscape - I love snow, in case you hadn't heard - and I was thinking about puppies and mermaids while I admired the beautiful winter flowers.

"Isn't life grand?" I thought. "Here I am walking through this beautiful snow-dappled wonderland - and oh how I love snow - thinking happy thoughts about happy things. If only every day of my wonderful life could harbor such beauty. Alas, every beautiful day until now is but a pale shadow of THIS beautiful day - what with the snow, which I love, and the thoughts about puppies and mermaids, and the beautiful winter flowers - and I can only hope that every beautiful day to come will have such delights therein."

The only thing that could have made that day better was if my mother baked something delicious; a cake, perhaps, or some muffins. Upon my return home I found a bowl of rice pudding on the kitchen counter, still warm no less, and thought to myself, "to whatever god gave me a world with Camel cigarettes, the new Battlestar Galactica, and a warm rice pudding on a cold but beautiful winter's evening, thank you."

It is at this point I would like to quote for Dr. Chill something I read in The Sandman, which in keeping with this week's theme is one of my top-five all time favorite things to read:

"I wonder, Titania... I wonder if I have done right. And I wonder why I wonder... it is what he wanted, after all. But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dreams... but the price of getting what you want is having what you once wanted."

To put it another way, from Star Trek III:

"You know what they say, Lieutenant... be careful what you wish for. You may get it."

Truer words, Dr. Chill. Truer words. And isn't truth, in its own way, the most beautiful and wonderful and positive thing of all?

There's still clues in there, by the way.

JLK