Paradise

Sometimes you need to break the drudgery of the office. Tired of the phone calls, the paperwork; tired of eating lunch at your desk?

A colleague and I have begun to take brisk lunch-time walks in the hopes of improving our health, and to get out of the office. A one-hour walk takes us down to Ocean Front Walk, then north to the Santa Monica Pier where we walk all the way to the end and look out over the blue, blue water.


Then we walk back, passing the street performers, the TV film crews, the trapeze school, the arcades and the tourists, and climb the steep overpass to Ocean Avenue. We walk back through the city's streets to our workplace.

Today the temperature was in the 70s, the sky was crystal clear blue, and there was a pleasant breeze.


Forget the drudgery. With all the uncertainty in the world, we reminded ourselves to be thankful. We have jobs - at least for now - that pay well enough and have benefits. We have our health. We have our families to treasure.

And we work in Paradise. That's worth remembering.