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Good morning (or afternoon, or evening) I’m back in America. Not much jetlag, just a tendency to be […]

Good morning (or afternoon, or evening) I’m back in America. Not much jetlag, just a tendency to be cranky after 8 p.m. and see more sunrises than usual, including a fairly impressive one right now that is rising out of china basin.

Oh, I just put up all the guest gleans in the archive. May their fabulous work live on for eternity!

Today’s “Word of the Day” was Argus, so that may be why this issue of gleanings is so IA heavy– fate!

argus (AHR-guhs) noun

An alert and observant person; a watchful guardian.

[From Greek mythology. After Argus, a giant with 100 eyes who was sent to

watch over Io. He was later killed by Hermes and after his death his eyes

transformed into spots on the peacock’s tail.]

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