Don't stop believin'...

Ted and I go to bed with Craig Ferguson every night. We find his Late Late Show the perfect way to end our day. Yeh sure, his jokes are often predictable, but we always have a laugh and we love that he doesn’t take himself seriously. And most of all, we love his complete and utter honesty.

Even as a boy in Scotland, Craig said he always loved America. He was naturalized as a citizen in 2008 (Check out his book “American On Purpose” http://www.amazon.com/American-Purpose-Improbable-Adventures-Unlikely/dp/0061998494/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366476928&sr=8-1&keywords=american+on+purpose) and loves America so much that he starts every show with “It’s a great day for American everybody!” Then he pounds on the camera’s baffolds a few times, steps back and does his monologue with his gay robot skeleton side kick, Geoffrey Peterson. (Gotta love 'em.)

This week was different. Craig in all honesty couldn’t say it was a great day for America. The Boston Marathon bombings had happened and even though the perpetrators had been caught, it was a sad week in America. A vulnerable week. A week where we all had to poke our heads up from of our daily lives and remember that we have become a country where we live every day with the possibility of bombs going off in public places.

Like Craig, for us, it felt insensitive to write a blog today about the pleasures of life in Sonoma without acknowledging what is going on in our country. It is indeed a sad day in American when people are out to terrorize each other, but the flip side is that the strength of the human spirit rises above. Always. People come to one another’s aid. People pour out their hearts to those who ran a marathon and may never run again. Terrorism in this country will not keep us from believing in the strength of the human spirit. It won’t stop us. It just makes us want to cherish the joys of each day even more. It unifies us and makes us strong so we “don’t stop believin’.” Ever.