Leap Year day is such a special day, there is only one every four years. So are we supposed to do something special with it or is it just an extra day of winter? Yes, I am aware that it is the way we keep the math of years, accurately. Those scientists … always making up something.

I actually think it is the last day of 2015. The 28th will do in other years. Let’s check it out. College football is completed in January, early February.

NFL football ends in late January, early February. The film world completed its year Sunday with the Academy Awards. Similar awards have taken place somewhere in January/February. Things are being completed.

The agonizingly long Major League Baseball season begins in March with Spring Training especially if you live in Florida or Arizona. College sports of the spring variety play somewhere between March and June. Maybe use the extra day to take a deep breath and create a vision for your life, or if you have already done that, check to see if you are on track and headed where you say you are committed to going.

Look around you. The world is a mess. The daily news is about who killed someone today. Or, on a good day who tried to kill someone and failed. If all this is too depressing you can get a few laughs from the political “show.”

I am clear that I am just one person, so how could I do anything about all this? Given I think anything is possible, what action am I willing to take? Life is mostly water dripping on a rock, anyway. So what is my drop for the day?
Here’s my promise … every day I will take the time to acknowledge someone for their greatness. When we lose sight of this, all we see is hopelessness in ourselves and others. Today I honor those laborerers in the fields and orchards of California’s San Joaquin Valley for their tenacity in doing jobs that no one else could care to do.