For the first time in years, maybe five years, I spent fifteen minutes lying in the grass this weekend, just enjoying the weather.  It's what I call a "hammock moment," if I had a hammock.  And yesterday, my wife, the college professor, worked at home, all day.  She wore jeans, didn't go to the office, got good work done.  It is a taste of the good life.  The life that was promised to us by an .edu lifestyle.  I am encouraged.