Happy Birthday tigira and the USA!

Thank you for adding your grace and skills to my life---you have enriched it tremendously. May your day be full of joyful play and happiness!

And happy birthday, United States of America! May this be a year of wise action and careful stewardship, in which you make good choices that care for all of your people. I am delighted to be one of your children, and I hope and pray that you flourish and thrive, bringing good things to the whole world and its peoples.

So Mote it Be!

Big, beautiful, spacious rooms, airy and light...

...that go on and on and on.

Sun streaming into the large windows, and an energy of lightness and possibility.

So lovely.

We are resisting all urges to buy new furniture...we want to preserve this lovely sense of spaciousness.

Happy.