Rat's Country: Have you ever thought...

Have you ever thought how easy it is to step out of muddy boots?  Voila!  Your clean feet.

Rat's Country: Begin the week thinking about generosity...

The woman who sells blueberries at the farmer's market in Fort Bragg told me this:  "I am a retired nurse and there's this doctor I know, worked with for years, and when he comes to the farmer's market to buy blueberries, he always gives me a hundred dollar bill.  He says, 'Give the next twenty-five people a basket of blueberries.'"

Rat's Country: I had an awful thought about...

I had an awful thought about spending so much time with old, old people:  that maybe you can catch senility just the way you can catch a  cold

Rat's Country: Fixed star

 Writing in my journal allows me to start my day as a fixed star in my private universe rather than as a busy little satellite spinning around someone else's planet.