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Q^UPPOSE you are by nature a home-making 

 ^^^ genius but by some strange whimsy of fate you 

 are exiled for a time in a breakfast-food-box, made- 

 for-discomfort house, or doing spiritual penance in 

 a furnished home of somebody else's, or staying for 

 the season in a country place ; suppose any antithesis 

 of a permanent abiding place; why not add one 

 touch of reality by a small garden of flowers? 



Don't be like two migratory birds I once knew, 

 possessed by a perpetual spirit of unrest; seeking 

 ever the perfect condition in a delightfully imperfect 

 world, they shuffled from one desolate place to an- 

 other. They "weren't going to stay there long," 

 what was the use of making any improvements? So 

 these two malcontents existed in one Sahara after 

 another, seeing no beauty, making no beauty, leav- 

 ing no legacy of beauty behind. 

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