I love it when even the mountains are smiling!  

On the way to my first California Writers Club meeting I noticed a brand new pale blue convertible driving in front of me.  It was a shiny, top down Volkswagon EOS convertible.  On its perfect bumper, a bumper sticker said “You’d be smiling too if you were going to Heaven.”  


I didn’t know quite what to think.  Is this a self-cancelling bumper sticker?  Does it mean the person is smiling, living a good, generous life, and that he or she is content in the knowledge that Heaven awaits? Or does it mean, when it says “you’d be smiling, too”, that therefore you must not be smiling, and must not be quite as good as the driver of a shiny new convertible? Is it actually self-deprecatingly ironic? Does the driver of the car know that? What did the writer of that bumper sticker intend?


Then I remembered a favorite quote:

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. ~ Dr. Edwin Schlossberg, author of eleven books at last count, and member of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts.

I’m thinking 🙂