30-Wand

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Contemplation

“Stay back there now!” he croaked. “Just keep your distance, sport. I’ve got nothing you’re after – unless it’s the cheese, and you can have that. If it’s meat you want, I’m nothing but gristle, but I’ll fight to keep it. Back now! back!”

“I’m not a sport, good simpleton,” said Brother Francis, using the polite address. He tossed back his hood to show his monastic haircut and held up his rosary beads. “Do you understand these?”

After a brief scrutiny, the pilgrim straightened. “Oh – one of them.” He leaned on his staff and scowled.

– A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959)

29-Vane

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Anemometer

Airport in the Woods

Tells a lot about wind direction.

per·am·bu·late (verb)

  1. formal • humorous – travel through or around a place in a leisurely way. “With great pleasure she perambulated the square.”
  2. historical • British – walk around (a parish, forest, etc) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries.

28-Wate

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Tranquility

Silence is like a river of grace inviting us to leap unafraid into its beckoning depths. It is dark & mysterious in the waters of grace. Yet in the silent darkness we are given new eyes. Sometimes it is good to leap into the unknown; good to practice leaping.

Macrina Wiederkehr

26-Kick

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Motion

Overlooking Vandenberg Space Force Base

Embrace movement outdoors to boost vitality.

Enthusiasm, the noun, comes from the Greek word enthousiasmos, meaning “possessed by a god, inspired.”

25-Wary

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Assimilate

The stronger the soul and the flesh, the more fruitful the struggle and the richer the final harmony. God does not love weak souls & flabby flesh. The Spirit is a carnivorous bird which is incessantly hungry; it eats flesh and, by assimilating it, makes it disappear.

Kazantzakis

24-Miss

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Surprise

Playing with Humor: When sobering events threaten to put you into a dour mood, don’t let your guard down; try to be funny (TF).

The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.

Mark Weiser