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The ability to change the regrets of your life-the choices you did and didn't make--sounds great. What if I really became an Olympic swimmer, a rock band sensation, or a famous glaciologist, instead of settling for this dead end life? Is the grass always greener in a perfect life? "We must not forget that it's not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things." Phew! This has been a year. I will not be sad to see the backside of 2022. I have been so medically challenged this year I am hoping the worst has peaked and calmer days are ahead. Of course, no one can be certain of future challenges….well, let’s not tempt the gods, Laurie… New Seeds of Contemplation, by Thomas Merton (1961) The Touchstone, by Edith Wharton sets up a moral dilemma for Stephen Glennard, whose career is floundering making it impossible to marry the woman he loves. He is resentful of his contemporaries who always find a place at someone’s dinner table or invitation to the opera, while he has to calculate cab fares, clothing and food to make ends meet sacrificing the important contacts that could improve his life. My mom is a big reader. She's heard of Edith Wharton, but never read anything by her. I casually handed this to her, with some dread. Calling all tea drinkers. Coffee aficionado in need of advice. I hope I never lose my naive enthusiasm for voting, the most basic right in a free society. It has been challenging of late to watch election deniers, voting intimidators and state legislatures making it difficult for people to take part in this civic sacrament. This is always an interesting time of the year. Half green, half bare. Nature seems a little unsure whether she wants to let it all go. So she pauses. And thinks. And waits.

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