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The latest addition to my office was a budding cactus.  Today the first yellow bloom opened up entirely and I had to share this discovery with my Other.  It is rare for us to have any flowering cactus.  She has had a Christmas cactus over the kitchen window for years and it has never bloomed.  I considered this flower a gift.  Life is full of unexpected gifts.  You just have to pay attention.

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It was a small Christmas gift to my wife–the wind chimes.  I liked the way it sounded.  She placed it to the left of the open door of our office.  Many times during the day I brush it and immediately think of my wife.  I never would have placed it there but it was a perfect spot for it.  I love its high pitched tinkle and it usually “speaks” to me when I least expect it to:  it takes me right back to my wife.  Almost every time.

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It was a small discovery but it gave me some joy:  my rubber tree in the office started sprouting new leaves.  It responded to my giving it more water.  It is a warm room and I was tickled pink to see the new growth.  Each day now I check it and can see the discernible growth.  Life is composed of many small pleasures.  This was just one.

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Clothes are just like books.  If you have too many, you can’t find your favorite ones too easily for they are buried.  For example, I would rather have an hundred favorite books than another additional nine hundred that hide the other hundred.  In fact I did that with my office:  it has my favorite books in it.  Just a thought.

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Sometimes I have to back away and leave my wife alone.  I can get overbearing and simply talk too much and she has reminded me.  I am learning this although some times slowly that the best thing I can do sometimes is just to withdraw and leave her alone.

It has become a little easier to do.  I wired my stereo so I can play it just in the office.  Sometimes I leave her alone and listen to my music without disturbing her.  It is amazing what silence can do to a relationship.  There are many hiding places in this house.  I just have to avail myself of them periodically.  There can be too much togetherness.

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