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OUPPOSE 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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