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There are moments<\/span>
\nWhen I feel<\/span>
\nLike such an amateur<\/span>
\nThen the payments come<\/span>
\nSo much more<\/span>
\nThan I could ever hope for<\/span>
\nThe only falling short<\/span>
\nIs ever thinking<\/span>
\nThat life<\/span>
\nIs fated to be<\/span>
\nAny won thing<\/span>
\nExcept<\/span>
\nWell<\/span>
\nSpent<\/span>
\nSurpassing awe<\/span>
\nIn deed not<\/span>
\nBuy miserly prose<\/span>
\nDying with more<\/span>
\nThan a pauper attitude<\/span>
\nLein-ing on the everlasting alms<\/span>
\nThat train to glory<\/span>
\nBound<\/span>
\nLess debt<\/span>
\nEternally<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is good.\u00a0 The gift of life offers so many great things and awesome possibilities.\u00a0 Gratitude strikes me as perhaps the most fundamental human attitude toward life, if reality is seen in a large enough perspective.\u00a0 Maybe I’m just lucky.\u00a0 I prefer to view it as grace.\u00a0 Either way, I have experienced the bounty of serendipity on countless occasions — and I count these occasions as priceless!\u00a0 Hopefully, such a beautiful predicament engenders paying it back and paying it forward.\u00a0 I see life as an invitation to more life.\u00a0 I view vitality as best served by generously overflowing, by joining in and continuing the perpetual cycling of giving.\u00a0 Miserly attitudes can stunt this wondrous cycling.\u00a0 Greed is a parasite on plenty.\u00a0 May gratitude and generosity carry you as a living antidote to miserliness and greed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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