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1.  I fixed my cursor problem without messing up my entire laptop
2.  Bumblebees buzzing in the arbor
3.  Penzey's order came -- spice rack replenished!
4.  Sleeping with the windows open 

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1.  Strawberries

2.  A new ironing board cover

3.  Making good progress with the book boxes

4.  Butterflies in the honeysuckle arbor

5.  Sleeping comfortably

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1.  Working in the garden
2.  The finches are nesting in the gazebo again
3.  Sometimes I can laugh at the sordid mess our country finds itself in

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TAKE KNOWLEDGE

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

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A PRAYER

In the name of the daybreak
and the eyelids of morning
and the wayfaring moon
and the night when it departs,

I swear I will not dishonor
my soul with hatred,
but offer myself humbly
as a guardian of nature,
as a healer of misery,
as a messenger of wonder,
as an architect of peace.

In the name of the sun and its mirrors
and the day that embraces it
and the cloud veils drawn over it
and the uttermost night
and the male and the female
and the plants bursting with seed
and the crowning seasons
of the firefly and the apple,

I will honor all life

--wherever and in whatever form

it may dwell-- on Earth my home,
and in the mansions of the stars.

~Diane Ackerman~