It’s Friday again and you’re sitting there after a long week contemplating the weekend, waiting for the day to be over, when by all rights you should still be working your keester off.  After all the boss is paying you until the end of the day. Just like Luke you’re stuck in a place where your time is filled up with moving dirt out of the Captains ditch and filling it back up again because you can’t have dirt laying all over the Captains ground.

Luke was only supposed to do two years for cutting the heads off the towns parking meters but ultimately did life, or death, depending on your viewpoint, because he couldn’t get his mind right. How long are you in for?

What we have here is not a failure to communicate, what we have, is a lack of ability to change your state of mind. To change your state of mind you need to change your point of view. And that ‘s where we can help. If you’re feeling like Luke, don’t go over the fence. Look instead at the image above and think what it would be like to be there, standing alone on a hilltop watching the storm come racing in over the foothills, feeling the wind streaming by pushing the smell of rain before it, hearing the distant thunder and watching the scene before you transform from calm to Nature’s high drama. That ought to get you through ’til days end. If not you got to get your mind right, boy, or you’ll spend a night in the box.

The movie was Cool Hand Luke, a 1967 release with Paul Newman as Cool Hand Luke, Strother Martin as the Captain, and George Kennedy as Dragline. And Oh Yeah, Joy Harmon ran the carwash. The image is from Yellowstone National Park and is a view of a huge storm roaring through the Lamar valley. Both were very cool.