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I looked at our dining room table this morning and had to take a picture capturing so many of my favorite things.

My mandolin, sketch book, pens and colored pencils, coffee, laptop (with twitter running, following some of my favorite people), rocks from beaches in the Northeast, Utne magazine in the background, and a turkey for Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday. During a photography class in college, I had the assignment to take a self-portrait. This pic would work.

There are so many, many things to celebrate every single day. In fact, so many that just about everything one might imagine celebrating has been given a designated moment for just such. That said, I have decided the following:

• In the spirit of Open Access Week, I will be hiding in the stacks.

• In the spirit of National Archives Month, I am going to sit very still and collect dust.

• In the spirit of Pastoral Care Week, let us all pray.

• In the spirit of Random Action Week, I made up a bunch of random services we will begin providing to the research community on campus. [I later discovered that it’s actually National RADON Action week, but I’m sticking with the former.]

• In the spirit of National Caramel Month, I ate a bunch of Hershey Kisses with caramel filling.

• In the spirit of National Disarmament Week, I will continue to never own a firearm.

• In the spirit of Head Start Awareness Month, let us all leave work 10 minutes early today.

Happy celebrating!

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