Shh? No! Speak up!

If you think about a problem hard enough, long enough, often enough, openly enough, with the intention of solving it, you may just find a solution — though it may not be the solution you  want it to be.

Organizing and cleaning a garage, finding things you had lost, finding things to give to someone who has less, ridding the space of clutter and dirt gives us a feeling of accomplishment and allows the car to be returned to its intended home, away from hail, vandals, and sap from trees.

Looks like an average ice cream cone perhaps? Trust me, it is not. Leon has very large hands and he LOVES ice cream and this was a lot even for him. Found this wonderful ice cream at a road side vegetable market - and yes, that is a suede jacket he is wearing — He had to bundle up and sit in the car to eat it, too cold that day outside, still winter, and North of us — but nothing was keeping him from that ice cream. We had gotten there just after closing last time to see people with normal hands dwarfed by their ice cream cones.. . . definitely drew attention to the market.

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Sad moods will sometimes overwhelm you, but with some effort you can usually chase them away — after they have served their purpose — and cleansed your soul.

Observed at a local park:  Band playing, hamburgers barbecuing, families fishing, families swimming, dogs playing, children climbing and swinging, people walking together or jogging alone, teenagers skateboarding — all beneath a gorgeous blue sky with white clouds, a perfect day for all.