... and so the wheel keeps spinning a little longer still

... powered by the hope that we'll wake up someday soon, and find it was all just a bad dream, and everything is fine, the jungles are filled with a million tigers and a zillion brightly colored birds and plants and the rivers and oceans teeming with fish in sparkling blue water, and the house is warm, the bread and coffee fresh on the table, the cupboards and the fridge well stocked, and all the