Most people consider me an optimist, though occasionally I was accused of being gullible on account of it. Still, I’ve always found it suited me to look at life from the ‘glass half full’ perspective. Once when I was quite young, I went back to bed and got up on the other side to shift my qi energy — though at the time the word qi was not in my vocabulary!

On our walk through a neighborhood in Corvallis yesterday (1/22/16), I saw téte a téte daffodils blooming already. The above primroses have continued flowering all winter in my rock garden —  now that’s optimism in my book!

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