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"The awful thing about life is this:" says Octave to the Marquis in Renoir's Rules of the Game. "Everyone has his reasons." That could be a motto for novelists as well, few more so than Jonathan Franzen, who seems less concerned with creating merely likeable characters than ones who are fully alive, in all their self-justifying complexity. Freedom is his fourth novel, and, yes, his first in nine years since The Corrections. Happy to say, it's very much a match for that great book, a wrenching, funny, and forgiving portrait of a Midwestern family (from St. Paul this time, rather than the fictional St. Jude). Patty and Walter Berglund find each other early: a pretty jock, focused on the court and a little lost off it, and a stolid budding lawyer, besotted with her and almost burdened by his integrity. They make a family and a life together, and, over time, slowly lose track of each other. Their stories align at times with Big Issues--among them mountaintop removal, war profiteering, and rock'n'roll--and in some ways can't be separated from them, but what you remember most are the characters, whom you grow to love the way families often love each other: not for their charm or goodness, but because they have their reasons, and you know them.

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   A man went to a psychiatrist and said, “Ever since I was a child, I’ve had a real fear of someone under my bed.  Every time I go to bed I think there’s somebody under it.  I’m scared.  I think I’m going crazy.”

   Just put yourself in my hands for one year,” the psychiatrist said “Come talk to me in my office three times a week, and we should be able to get rid of those fears.  It’s only $125 per visit.”

   “I’ll sleep on it,” the man replied. 

   Six months later, the shrink met the man on the street and asked, “Why didn’t you come to see me about those fears you were having?”

“Well,” the man replied,  $125 a visit three times a week for a year if an awful lot of money.  A friend cured me for nothing.  He told me to saw the legs off the bed!  Ain’t nobody under there now!.

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One Person’s Dream

I dreamt that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around. We walked side-by-side inside a large
workroom filled with angels. My angel guide stopped in front of the  first section and said, ' This is the Receiving Section. Here, all petitions to God said in prayer are received. 
 
I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper sheets and scraps from people all over the world. 
 
Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section. 

The angel then said to me, "This is the Packaging and Delivery Section. Here, the graces and blessings the people asked for are processed and delivered to the living persons who asked for them." I noticed again how busy it was there. There were many angels working hard at that station, since so many blessings had been requested and were being packaged for delivery to Earth. 
 
Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a very small station. To my great surprise, only one angel was seated there, idly doing nothing. "This is the Acknowledgment Section, 
my angel friend quietly admitted to me. He seemed embarrassed." How is it that there is no work going on here? ' I asked. 
 
"So sad," the angel sighed. "After people receive the blessings that they asked for, very few send back acknowledgments." 

"How does one acknowledge God's blessings? " I asked.. 
 
"Simple," the angel answered. Just say, "Thank you, Lord. " 
 
"What blessings should they acknowledge?" I asked. 
 
"If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a 
dish, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy. " 
 
"And if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity." 
 
"If you woke up this morning with more health than illness .. You are more blessed than the many who will not even survive this day. " 
 
"If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ... You are ahead of 700 million people in the world." 
 
"If you can attend a church without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion people in the world." 
 
"If your parents are still alive and still married ...you are very rare." 
 
"If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you're unique to all those in doubt and despair......."
 
Ok, what now? How can I start? 
 
If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you as very special and you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all. 
 
Have a good day, _count your blessings_, and if you care to, pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are *

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It’s important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle. —Author Unknown

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Eighteen-year-old British royal Victoria (Emily Blunt) ascends to the throne and is romanced by future husband Prince Albert (Rupert Friend) in this lush period film that chronicles the early years of the British monarch's larger-than-life reign. Produced by Martin Scorsese and Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, the Oscar-nominated film also stars Miranda Richardson as the Duchess of Kent, Jim Broadbent as King William, and Paul Bettany as Lord Melbourne.

After hearing their pastor preach about the devil, before Halloween, two boys were walking home from church.  “What do you think about all that stuff about the devil?” one boy asked the other.

Replied the other boy.  “Yeah, you know Santa Claus turned out.  It’s probably just your Dad.”

               —Bud Frimoth. Portland , OR

“You have as much laughter as you have faith.”

                                       —Martin Luther

“Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.”

Jeff Larson on Teens