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• To Cathy on her 70th Birthday - Todd And His Bride With love from Maida “Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:O no! it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken.” –  Sonnet 116 – Shakespeare I watched my brother fall in love.  My older brother Todd was always good.  
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• Ready - by Maida Korte             “Poor Mole stood alone in the road, his heart torn asunder, and a big sob gathering, somewhere low down inside him, to leap up to the surface presently, he knew, in passionate escape…………the wafts from his old home pleaded, whispered, conjured, and finally claimed him imperiously…”  – Kenneth Grahame             According
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• Counting and other Past-Times - Organizing our minds allows us access to our emotions.
• Expertise at Home -             By Maida Korte “I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”― Abraham Lincoln           My mother once told me that upon dying, the very first thing she was going to do in heaven was to perform a tremendous
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• Sentimental Clutter - My paper project has taken me from the present to the past and back again.
• Rainbows and Peacocks - By Gwen Walker – for Chuck We had a peacock garden In rainbow bright array – But the sunflowers all have bent their heads And our finch is sparrow gray. I’ve walked the morning circle And heard the grasses squeal As Babe and Holly charge the day With swooping pristine zeal. Closeting communities stood The
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• Landing with a Graceful Thump - “A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.” –  Henry David Thoreau. I did not like my first name when I was a little girl.  As a child in the 1950’s
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• At the Very Least - “The way you do small things is the way you do all things” – Jens Wolff             Well, you know what time of year it is and I don’t need to add to the incredible marketing push to get you to join a gym, eat better, address your sagging skin receding thinning hair aging face
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• Sounds - “The queer little noises that no one explains, ‘Til the moon through the slats of my window blind rains.” (Unknown)           Little sounds in the country keep me up at night, but I’m learning to cope, slowly.   I knew I had a problem when I was irritated one morning by the sound of birds chirping. 
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• Pomp and Circumstance - “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”  – Hamilton Wright Mabie I have never been known as regal but I do like the occasional bit of ceremony.  For example, preparing my dining room table for family and guests is something I do one day ahead of time so
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