We've been reading lately about "Black Swan Events." These are events that seldom happen. Like when Dave and I walk around Lake Eola in downtown Orlando we see beautiful white swans on the water. Rarely a black one. But it seems that there are so many world wide "black swan" events taking place almost daily that our schizophrenic stock market doesn't know what to think.Yes, crazy stuff is going on in the world. Some of us want to blame our many 24 hour news stations. Remember when we went to the movies and saw news highlights that were several weeks old? We're never going back to that. It was a calmer way to live but that's because we were clueless much of the time.
So now we have a tough time admitting to ourselves that events that keep happening are no longer black swan events. They're patterns - and patterns need to be faced, researched and dealt with before they destroy us. For example: bizarre world wide weather events, unrest in the middle east or your husband coming home drunk four nights a week are not black swan events. They're patterns.
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