Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. -Robert Louis Stevenson
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
-Chuang Tzu
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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. -Frederick Buechner

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The sky smiles...today better than yesterday. I did get a chance to open my SUV and look it over a bit. Tomorrow I will probably drive Haley to Walmart so she can get her battery installed correctly. She left her lights on and her car would not start even with a jump. She had it towed to the store close to us. Feeling better now that I actually was able to see the inside of the Element.