It is amazing to me that a few words, in such a fleeting moment, can change things so dramatically. A few words can have such a profound effect on you that you can not quite find the words to describe just how it has changed you...or challenged you...words that will stay with you as markers for the rest of your life...

I awoke this morning feeling like one of Pavlov's dogs...emotionally drooling, all because the ding of one simple stimulus...

Will there be a day when what I have been conditioned with since childhood will no longer make me emotionally drool like a St. Bernard? I sure hope so because I feel like I have been drooling a lot these past few weeks...