FRIDAY THE 13TH

Today is Friday the 13th.  It will continue to be Friday the 13th all day today.  And yes, today is the luckiest day of the year.  Today is the day for good fortune for one and all.  Burn your four leaf clover.  Melt down your lucky penny and your lucky horseshoe.  Today is a day for none of that.   So feel free to have a black cat cross your path.  Open an umbrella inside the house.  Walk under the ladder.  Today is the day for tempting fate farther than is needed.  Today is the day for pushing your luck far beyond the comfort zone.  Of course, nothing good will come from tempting fate farther than is needed nor will anything good come from pushing your luck far beyond the comfort zone.  And you may not survive the night to see the next morning.  Because today is the day for good luck.  Or rather, today is the day for good luck to vanish into thin air.
And as I'm lost in thought on the freezing cold days of Friday the 13th, here are some photos of Mary-Louise Parker.