I've continued to be caught up by joy, its meaning, the feelings of it, how it takes us by surprise, and how, when its real, it lasts and lasts, unless we do drama and drop it down and away rather than letting it stay. Madness comes into play when the joy becomes too great and we don’t let it stay because we’re not used to it and so go back to the old and familiar chaos and drama….madness. People do it, we do it, we do it more than we imagine. In the words of the Tao Te Ching, “Misery—happiness is to be found by its side! Happiness!—misery lurks beneath it! Who knows what either will come to in the end.” It’s our choice, as we grow in consciousness. Those moments when we wonder why everything suddenly went south when things were going wo well. It’s a good time to ask why we needed this to happen, how, in a sense, we drew it to ouselves so that we could go back to the bad with which we are familiar because the good is too unfamiliar and therefore frightening. It’s the madness that we can make happen in everyday life. And it’s the madness that can be traded in for joy, being caught up in it, swept up and into it, and letting ourselves fly, enjoy our wings and the soaring that is an integral part of life as we let ourselves watch out for dropping down and away and instead stay with the joy and feel the soar.