Perhaps there’s a natural impulse we have, maybe from way back in our earlier evolution, to pay special attention to the negatives. Stay alert. There was a tiger in a clump of grass last week. Could be one in that one over there. A dark cloud brought troublesome weather. Is that another dark cloud forming in the west? Expect the worst in order to survive the next threat. Man, do I ever fall into that trap. This past Sunday I obsessed on the clumps of grass that could be hiding more horrible news about the president. I saw clouds that put me in mind of the burning Amazon rainforest and our planet’s dire circumstances. Then I got slapped by an innocuous little thing called gratitude. Gratitude? Who has time for gratitude? The planet’s on fire! Our political system is in blazes! But a wisp of a woman named Jenny Wood pulled a curtain of love down over my absorption with fear. The singer who miraculously survived a nightmarish car accident months ago, summoned the strength to warble and