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“Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.” Aragorn ‘The Return of the King’

You have your ballot, take the time to fill it out and either mail it or drop it off at an official ballot drop. It is a long ballot with 54 items to vote on – 23 are judicial retention questions, and if you need a concise explanation of all items a good resource is…

“Write it in your heart that every day is the best day of the year. Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, breathe the wild air. Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you…

“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.” Sherlock Holmes

Retrouvailles The emotion felt when meeting again after time apart. Retrouvailles names the emotion that surrounds a return. Not the meeting itself, but what flows around it, memory, affection, recognition. Time folds gently, past and present touching for a moment. Something resumes without needing to explain itself.

Je-ne-sais-quoi That indefinable charm you feel but can’t explain.

“Dear Child of God, you are loved with a love that nothing can shake, a love that loved you long before you were created, a love that will be there long after everything has disappeared. You are precious, with a preciousness that is totally quite immeasurable. And God wants you to be like God. Filled…

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”      Rainer Maria Rilke

“All men, while they are awake, are in one common world; but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.” Plutarch