I just came across my Cousins first Trestleboard message as Worshipful Master; I think it would do us all good to read his words and give some quiet contemplation to their gravity...

Greetings from the East, Brethren, and many thanks to the Officers of our Lodge for all the hard work and study you have done in your new stations and places - It was quite evident in your performance at January's D.L.I. and in our first regular communication. If we keep the momentum going, I assure you, the Degree work we do this year will leave a positive and long-lasting impression on the future Brothers of Pyramid Lodge.

Since it's been unusually warm this Winter, I was doing some early Spring cleaning in my workshop. It was the dirtiest corner which I had been neglecting for years. As I threw out needless junk, arranged the remaining tools and equipment, and swept the place clean, it occurred to me that this was exactly what some of us need to do in our minds.

We all have a dark corner in our minds to a certain extent. That corner in which our prejudices, hates, misjudgments, and all other kinds of negative thinking pile up. We know it's there and it needs to be dealt with. We can ignore it, hoping it will go away, or put it off until tomorrow, but it continues to grow. Like the corner of my shop, it's an ugly site.

Just getting started can be toughest part of the job. But, as we clean out those thoughts and ideas that don't serve us (or society) anymore, we'll find it was easier than we thought. And when the patterns of negative thinking are broken something wonderful happens. Our thoughts become fresh and clean like when we were young. We'll look, act, and feel different and the world will respond accordingly. Once clean, that corner will be easier to maintain.

The workshop is now looking like it used to (clean and well-ordered) and I found some useful tools I'd forgotten about. I hope the same happens in my mind... and others.

Jeffrey J. Morelli,  Worshipful Master