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Well, I decided I need to slow down a bit and start looking at each new day. Life has a way of getting ahead of us and it is time to stop working into a frenzy and start paying attention to what is really important in this old life---and the simple things in life are really the BEST things in life. When I am 80, I won't remember that project I was doing at work. My job title will be long forgotten. But I will remember the feeling I had when I watched that beautiful yellow butterfly feasting on the purple coneflowers in my garden and how it gave me permission to bring out my camera and take picture after picture. I will remember how good those tomatoes in my garden tasted and how my neighbor's children were thrilled to each get their own tomato, eating them as if they were sweet as apples. I will remember showing the neighbor girl how to pot a plant for her mother for Mother's Day and the satisfaction I felt when it was displayed proudly on their front porch and they were giving it proper care. These small things are part of making memories and I hope I have these good memories held within my heart until I take my last breath on God's green earth.