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Last Friday I promised you the Nelson Mandela quote, from his inaugural speech in 1994, and here it is.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people who't feel insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glory of God within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated frim our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

True then, true today.

It's been a long time since there have been Nora and Aaron pictures. Here's Nora puzzling out, what else, a puzzle that Steph brought her from the Smokies. The edges are curved, not straight, so there was a little extra puzzling before the full picture of the bear emerged.

Here's Aaron that same night. He showed up with shoes on his feet - you can see one of them on the floor behind him. The next time I used the pot he's opening, there was a green block in it.