THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Friday, December 24, 2010— Page 5
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This time of year can bring the dreaded ‘s-flu’ EDITOR’S NOTE: We’ll get to the column after a few programming notes. First, in celebration of Christmas, The Daily Sun will not publish a Saturday (Christmas Day) paper this week. So read this one slowly. We will resume our regular Tuesday-through-Saturday schedule next week.
Curtis Robinson ––––– Usually Reserved Secondly, for fans of Heidi Wendel’s serialized column/novel “The Port City Chronicle” there’s good news. Year one of the adventures of Gretchen Reingren, the 45-year-old (still?) lawyer living atop Munjoy Hill, and her family is available as a book, “Getting Off The Earth” (image at left). You can find it at Longfellow Books and online at blurb.com (tip: type “Getting Off The Earth” into the search box. Or you see ROBINSON page 6
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Appreciating the million tiny things that go right in a year HIGGINS from page 4
can be wandering about, and see something from a slightly askew view than you ever seen it before. Luckily, the part of the brain that makes you want to keep up with current trends is on the side that got damaged in a motorcycle accident a few years back. I’ve never seen anything “smart” about buying a “smartphone,” as they are perhaps the dumbest items I’ve ever seen. When the power dies out, your entire connective network is inside the brick. Also, I’ve managed to avoid the twin plagues of toe-socks and the latest fad, toe-sneakers. In both cases, the individual tootsies have their own area all to themselves. Portland has far too many brick sidewalks for me to be walking around in the sneakers, and
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a friend of mine suggested to me that ten individualized compartments of stench for my feet was simply going too far. Everyone wants to win a million dollars on the lottery for Christmas, or even the new year. Though that might be a life-changer, I’ve come to appreciate the million tiny little things that go right over the course of the year. For every “bad” day someone had this year, I bet, with just a little looking, you could find at least one good thing that happened that day, like the free coffee you got at the store that morning. My gift to Portland is this: Everything is about perception. Find that one small thing every day, and that is the real winning lottery ticket.
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(Bob Higgins is a regular contributor to The Portland Daily Sun.)
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