Some of us are born with green thumbs — able to water and plant barren landscapes into lush gardens.

Some of us are born with gangrene thumbs — unable even to grow a “Chia Pet.” 

Some people are born with the ability to take things apart and put things back together. They are handy-dandy, fixer-uppers from the get go.

But in the most shallow part of the wading area of that “fixer-upper” gene pool, there are those of us who should never be allowed to handle hammers, screwdrivers, or saws. There are those (like me) who find “Plumbing for Dummies” more challenging than a dissertation on quantum mechanics.

All of us have our special gifts; all of us have our special limitations for those things fixable or tweak-able. But, as we so often fail to realize, not everything in life can be “fixed…