Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful            By Sandy Jones 

You haven't really gotten there until you find your heart so in love with this world that you are about to burst with the joy and wonder of this Living Beauty. 

Not until you are back in the world again, not until you Live again---the second time--to know and live the second coming of Christ. 

You haven't found anything real or honest until you find there is no death. 

You have not got any where until you can Live in the world and Love this world mightily, wholly, totally, passionately, the way it is.

You have not seen anything until we hear you shout Praise to God for the Light of Life! And then you show up and do what you are Here to do! Do what you have been destined to do for your world. 

No bailing out--- but to embrace, to stay, to see, to love dearly everything because you understand Now is the time for returning to the one you are, the Child again and now alive and being vulnerable, alive and feeling It all moving through you, moving your soul. 

You don't know nutt'in brudder if you think the search is about being empty, being thoughtless, being null and void to the world ---  No, you have not found anything---not until we hear you sing out the Joy of the Child that Lives Again! 

It's only when you can live in this world and understand this world and love this world without fear or hesitation, that you will know you have truly found anything real at all. 

Now go ride your bike around the block a few times and feel the wind in your hair, and breath in the springtime time cool fresh air, and smell the fragrances of the dogwoods and lilac and roses in bloom and the new mown grass and hear the water sprinklers on the lawn as you ride by and feel the roar of the cars as they go by and listen, listen, open your self to Life and to the sounds--hear the birds song and the rustle of leaves ride like you were when you were 7 years old---and open your self up to hear the children in the schoolyard full of joyful screams and laughter, and stop and look up and be still and see the sky and the clouds and fill your self with the wonder of it all-- Be Alive, unbound, unleashed, untethered, run with It. 

You have not gotten anything yet--- not until you Live again and you see the world made new and you see heaven is here because you see The Living One in All That Is.  Until you Live again and you see the Sweet Mystery and the magic that is right here before your eyes, not until then can you say you understand anything.

About Judgment

 This following enlightening and very clear statements on judgment are a random selection  taken from the book A Guide To Awareness and Tranquillity by William Samuel

 About Judgment                 By William Samuel 

If we continue the foolishness of making evaluations, we will continue to act in accord with those evaluations. Things "out there" are not really out there at all, but "here," included within and as the perceiving Awareness itself. Consequently, human judgment is self-judgment, and in whatever measure one judges, he but unwittingly judges himself.

"Why doest thou judge thy brother?" "Judge not and ye shall not be judged; condemn not and ye shall not be condemned; forgive (previous judgments) and ye shall be forgiven. Give and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over shall men give into your bosom. With the same measure ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again." "I came not to judge the world . . . “

The declaration that anything is "good" is dualism creating self-judgment; the declaration that anything is "bad" is needless Self-condemnation.

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To the old nature, happiness hinges on an external world of things, and especially on the possession and manipulation of them.

"How are things going? How is everything? Is everything all right?" surely implies the belief that happiness has to do with the proper alignment of the images within Awareness. Would we make happiness, joy and completeness dependent on a state of "things"? This appears to place the television set at the mercy of the images on the screen.

Externals are not the creators of Peace, Tranquility or Serenity; neither are they empowered to alter or remove them. Indeed, externals are subservient, so to speak, to Tranquility (Identity). For example, a tranquil view of the panorama yields infinitely more detail and beauty than a fearful view of it, or an angry view, or one that is "blind with rage."

How things seem, therefore, hinges on the view of things. In and of themselves, "things" are not capable of influencing the beholder, who is the "viewing."

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WE LEAVE "THINGS"

Images are best seen in a "state of tranquility." If they are to be seen correctly in one's experience, therefore, it should be obvious that the natural place to turn is within oneself, where tranquility is felt and experienced. Through the eyes of Absolute Tranquility, "health" and "wealth" are seen as they are.

To feel peace within when everything outside is awry demands that we leave "things." It requires that we let go all desire to correct, manipulate or change the troubling images of perception. It requires that we divest ourselves of the incorrect notion that happiness can be experienced only if "things" get straightened out or the mess is cleaned up—or "healed."

Tranquility is ever present as our very Identity. It is always "here," but we cannot be very well aware of it while battling the external picture, and we cannot be aware of it at all while believing that Identity is dependent upon, and dictated to, by a world of "things."

Letting the world of things go, with the knowledge that Peace is right here, right now, closer than breathing, we feel the baptism of Peace descend like a river of water. Then, AS Peace, we "look out" and see images as they are and for what they are. Inevitably, this view of the world reveals that no matter how ominous the appearance of a particular situation, no matter how dire and foreboding, there is no Power there. No condition or circumstance is capable of altering the Peace, the Identity, that one is!


Absolutely, and this human determination of 'good' is no better than its opposite. Human good is only the other end of the judgmental scale established by the judgment that something is bad. You can't have one without the other. The instant we cut a circular rope it has two ends. There can't be a personal determination of 'I like' without having 'I don't like.' Identity itself—the 'real' Identity—is infinitely above and beyond either of these determinations. Since neither 'good' nor 'bad' has the power to exist outside judgment, they have no authority outside personal judgment. There is no power in their seeming when we end the judgment."

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Criticism is judgment, Webster tells us, usually an unfavorable censure following a critical observation.

Those who criticize most make the most judgments. Those who make the most judgments find the most to be unhappy about.

“Yes," someone writes, "but those who are intellectually able to make the most judgments also find more to be happy about."

Not so! The happiness this refers to is only the other end of unhappiness, the joy that is opposite misery, gladness that is the dualistic partner of sadness. The one who makes no judgments, either good or bad, is never moved from the Tranquility and Peace which resides in the Heart at the very center of Being. This is the Tranquility that is self-evident only to those who take no sides, to those who prefer to judge not, even as they have been admonished.

Backbiting and criticism are merely the negative aspects of judgment. Is a positive judgment any better? It has been written, "When beauty came into being, ugliness arose." A judgment is merely a comparison of one human evaluation to another.

Critics are great peak-of-elation and valley-of-depression sufferers, plunging from the ecstatic height of happiness into the abyss of the soul's dark night.

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We know the images on the television screen, the screen itself, and the television set are all one functioning television set; exactly so, Knower, knowing and known are one. Here and now, the reader, reading and read is the One in action, effortlessly beholding another aspect of the infinite Selfhood.
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Awareness is an obvious fact because we are aware. All that "needs be done" is to acknowledge this Awareness, here and now, to be God's alone. It is our good pleasure to be the Deific Awareness of Deity! This is true! It is a fact! We do not have to do anything to make it so; we do not even have to acknowledge it and act it; but when we do, we behold wonder after wonder everywhere and see the ills of the old vision vanish.

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Just because there is no ISNESS in the image does not mean the objects of everyday perception do not exist or are "just a dream going on"; it means there is no value, power or importance in them, no matter what they are, or what they appear to be doing or not doing. It means the bird, the bee, the tree, flower, son and daughter are being just what they are—bird, bee, tree, flower, son and daughter—but there is no power there. The Eternal Value is the basic, primordial ISNESS being those objects of perception. Isness is the power and importance, forever maintaining, sustaining every "thing" as Itself.

This means we can stop the foolish business of attaching values to qualities and attributes that have no value. We can stop worshipping dollar bills and automobiles and making graven images of personal possessions. Furthermore, we can stop cringing before appearances; then, when we're not wasting our time cringing, we know what to do about them!

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Chief among the valueless images to which the greatest value is given is the me-judge opinion holder who is the one who attaches the values and worships the valueless. We cease playing the part of that ridiculous identity the instant we stop making judgments, the process by which we arrive at opinions and attach values to the valueless.

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Isness is being this Awareness-I-am as surely as it is being the bee, the tree and the thundering sea. This is why "the things I see are the Self I be" and why judgment is always self-judgment. "By what measure ye judge" says the One.

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JUDGMENT AND THE APPEARANCE OF "THINGS" AND EVENTS

QUESTI0N: I've never understood the statement inherent within so many philosophies that there is no matter. Will you explain this?

ANSWER: The statement "there is no matter" does not mean there are no mountains or flowers. It simply means that mountains and flowers are not outside consciousness, are not external. Indeed, there are mountains, and little boys climbing them; there are flowers, and little girls picking them; but they are not apart from the Awareness that perceives them. They are not "out there." They are not one thing and Awareness another, just as the images on the television picture tube are not one thing and the picture tube another. Images, picture tube and television set are one.

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How things appear to us depends on the degree to which we consider our self a possessor of the viewing. To the extent we cease playing the possessor of Awareness—letting that one go—and consciously are Awareness alone, "things" appear the beautiful, flawless and harmonious aspects of Deific Isness they are. It is not that images change, or that Awareness changes; it is that the no-identity, the dark glass, is let go and cast aside. The veil is rent. The mist lifts.


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Remember Me Your Heart

Remember Me Your Heart        By Sandy Jones

Remember Me, I am your Heart.  I am the one you come home to.  

Yes, my heart, somehow my heart and my childhood are deeply connected and still alive and well, entwined I am with them both; the Living One is here with me. 

How beautiful my life has become over these past years.  My heart broke and in that breaking open I was lead through the portal, I was lead through the open door into the living wisdom of my heart. 

If I think about it, I guess I am mostly always living in my heart these days.  The surface stuff of my thinking very rarely gets noticed any more. I am abiding in this deep calm of serenity.  This is my Shekinah, yes, I believe so.  It is wonderful, this heart of mine.

There truly is a Sacred Heart that lives within us.  It has found me.  Living from the Heart brings a sweet relief, a solitude, a resting. And yet this; I am in this serenity while still fully here and doing what needs to be done.  What has to be done seems to be navigated with more care and ease.  Most of the things that I thought had such importance, in my perfectionist’s view, my need to get everything just the way I thought it should be, have vanished.  Now I see, all that was never really what perfect is at all-- and my ‘perfectionism’ has drifted to the surface and evaporated, or floated away. 

Love has moved into me.  Perfectionism replaced by Love. Now I enjoy the sweet beauty of watching where this Love leads me.  And this Love that shows me which way to walk is so much more perfect than I could ever have dreamed.

The heart shows me how unnecessary it is to take anything too seriously. Can’t get it done today, so I see it makes no difference.  I find the heart has an intelligence that is free and unbound from human education and indoctrination.  The heart seems to take the power of authority out of the thoughts and conditioning that used to take precedence.

This heart of mine is very deep and abides in tenderness, is always trust worthy and ever present.  This is the Child of the Living One.

The Sacred Heart, yes. 

I grew up a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean. So, even before I was on my own, my mother would take me to the beach when I was very young. I learned to swim and play in the ocean from the time I was a toddler.

When I got a little older, I would go the beach every day of the summer.  When the month of June arrived and school was out, well, that was it, I’d rarely miss a day laying on the sand, soaking up the sun and riding the waves.  Three months of pure bliss was set before me and I was filled with every moment of it.  

 Back then the ocean was clean and clear and I loved diving into the crystal blue green salty water and catching the waves.  What a joyful childhood I had. 

Some days the waves were huge and the air was filled with the excitement coming from the powerful thunderous pounding surf.   Sometimes I would dare myself to swim out there and try to catch one of those giant breakers. I’d have to dive down deep under the waves when I was at the wrong place and the huge wall of water was about to crush me.  

Under the waves, under the surface of the sea everything was silent and safe.  There in the depth I would feel the rocking, sway of the sea and the silent power of this serene calm,  down, down so far below the waves.  I loved it under the waves. I loved the silence and gentle moving peace below the waves. It was another world for that moment under the water.

Then I’d swim up as the wave past and I had a chance to catch a good ride on the next wave.  Seeing the swell coming, getting my self into that perfect spot and catching its full force, lifted up smoothly, gliding, taken into its powerful moving beauty. 

Then I take a quick turn under and out, now behind wave, just before it hits the shore. All of it perfectly timed, as I avoid the churn of getting pushed to shore by the crashing surf. 

Sometimes, while riding the smaller waves, I’d let the waves take me all the way the shore, and I’d belly ride the sand, tumbling with the breaking water, pummeled in the white roil and turmoil and sand and the freedom of such innocent, great gleeful fun. 

I love the Child of Me, independent, individual, powerful strength and joy of My Heart. I was lead by Grace into the this holy sanctuary of My Self. Out of loss came this gift of a holy tabernacle within me.  My Heart belongs to God-- always has-- God and I together, here, now, as the Child takes care of Me and I am the living Child of this sweet heart of mine again. This peace so profound and real, It is from God’s Grace and no other place does this come from.  

I have been shown the Light that lives as Me and I am that little girl again. Here is where the pristine Child, the innocent, pure, open, laughing living soul of My Self abides.  She has come back to me through this heart of mine, which is holy and rare, deep and marvelous with wonder and joy.  I am alone with this Love as I live again. 

The Untamed Joy of Stormy Days

The Untamed Joy of Stormy Days                By Sandy Jones 

When I was a little girl,  on stormy days I would often go down to the beach  and stand on the cliff above the sea and  watch the scene below; the pounding surf and the dark skies, the vast grey Pacific, the huge waves slamming the rocks and spinning the  sandy shore.  The silver rays of beauty and sounds of power were pure joy. Standing there in such wonder and excitement of it all.   I was a genuine ragamuffin of a child, tousled, uncombed strawberry hair blowing in the winds.  

The joy comes back to me now. A friend sent me a book; poems written by an Irish poet. 

Thank you friend.  It set my heart on that sweet road that leads me back to the child, the original Truth of my self. The little girl I was, and still am. 

The child of those years is still here.  I am standing on the high edge, loving, imbibing in the weather and sounds, totally my senses, simply alive surveying the pounding surf below and my glorious ocean all upturned in turmoil, the salty air like tears on my face, tasting and reaching my soul.  The beauty of Life, so powerful and magical. I remember  life times before this one, I stood on the cliffs above the sea, the green green grass that touches the sky. 

I am blowing sideways and my hair long and twisting like my skirts in the wild beauty of it all.  Now, the child hears the thunder and feels the strength rush through the depth of her. 

 Such it was, such it is and I can be there now again.  Watching it all as the storm passes and the earth is refreshed, and sun begins to break through the clouds. In this grey light, the hard silver light at the hem of the clouds  begins to open to blue again.  The crystal light beams, turn gold and I breathe the fresh life of air, and hear the sound of seagulls squealing with the joy of being-- and l love the wonder of it all. 

 Blessed heart of my self,  child alive and dancing me home, She is the one I was and will be that child who embraces the marvel of it all and sings God's Love. 

Loving It All

Loving It All       By Sandy Jones

Someone mentioned Samsara;  I had to look it up and see what it was.  I have no education in eastern philosophies.

Samsara, my definition:  just enjoy and love it all deeply, while it lasts-- the good the bad and the ugly

Love each moment and let Grace take your hand and walk with you in your Heart. Hold your Heart close and follow That inner prompting.

Loving It All just as it is makes it so much easier, and richer and deeper. Loving It all the way it is because Perfection is Here whether we know It or not.

Walk through this world of time with Love as your Guide, and you will find All the Joy and Beauty Life Is within you.

And you then can embrace the Wonder of this limited light for what It Really Is. That is a miracle. That is we are Living a Living Miracle. What Love this is! And You can hold and care for this passing scene because you know Its Divine Source. And you will then take good care of It all, even embrace the pain of that Love when we lose those what we love, the things we cherished, and when life hurts and we broken open and the River of God's Love flows through us, clear and wide and Living and then we are brought to the Higher Place where Angels and Eternal Love is seen beyond this changing world.

Love, it is all about Love for God and God's Evidence; God's evidence is This tangible world called Samsara. We are seeing God at all times, everywhere we look, including the looking, it is all God's.

Then keep taking care, we always go back to Love---Love What Is and what is not-- and even when it all falls apart and crumbles to dust---Love the dust, love the crumbs and ashes of It all. It is wonderful. It is All. God, Reality, Truth, Love is Here in this World, Present and Living as the tangible coming and going and This Love is Beyond it all and Yet is the very Cause of this ever changing birth-death appearances.

To Love this world mightily while trusting the Light of Life that is always Here and Forever in my Heart--while It is the very Beingness of this scene appearing as tangible matter and things. We are Already Here upon the Holy Ground --we stand on the Place Where God Is All and we stand, between What Is Real and What Is not real, while knowing they are Both the One and Only One That Is. Now we see that it is all about Loving both ways at once, loving It All because God Is All in all. As above, so below, samsara is the reflections of God's Living Presence. Because the Mind of God is being this Whole Grand Awareness of Samsara while Being the Eternal Light of Life which is the Light you are. Now when the Mandala is destroyed, we know that nothing Real is ever changed or destroyed. This is Living the Love and Light here in the world.

God is Being the Whole of What Is Always Present and What is always changing---It is Pure Love, Pure Mystery, Pure Magic, Pure Wonder to Live and Be and It is the Life I Am, It is the Eternal Changeless Life I Am right now.

One day, Grace came along and lifted me, It took my hand and now It walks with me always and will never leave me. What can I do but share this Love for this Grace that found me. So we give what we can.

Sometimes the old time religions have something to say to you: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me."

And here is the Balance between It All, we can live both sides now. One foot in Heaven and one in the earthly scene. Our Heart and Soul stand with the Everlasting Above while we understand the powerful the beauty of time-space-world and can then delight in it all, enjoy and love and care for deeply all that is here in the below which is an opposite reflection of Above--while not having to do battle with darkness we see.

Nothing, absolutely nothing is not of God The All in all. It all serves a purpose, good purpose that eventually we will see.

You are That, and That is God the Infinite Unseen Isness being All That Is, and That is You. You will never lose your Identity, because and Self and Self knowing are One.

Yes, to step it up a notch, It takes a change of Heart, a shift in seeing, a slight move to Higher Ground, and then staying there, stay with that Lifting of Spirit, Here to See this as "It all God" --- Just rest in God's Love, this Life right now, and anyone can do it, anyone at any time.

The Balanced Place is Always Here, always available to Everyone, Here is Always Here It is The Very Life and Ever Present Now That You Are.

We do not need any special study to understand, we don't need to be able to do anything ---Just existing is the Fact that The Understanding is within us, we come supplied with It in our Heart and Soul.

We just uncover It, and It is ours alone, our own Faith in God in our own way we get there. We just Trust our Self, we listen to that still small Voice and we follow our own leads, knowing God is All and knowing God and Life are one, and Knowing this Presence is God's alone and then It happens.

Individually, alone, by our self. We become the Independent one. We follow no one. We are to put it to the test, put it to practice and Live It unbeholden to systems, organizations, human concepts and indoctrinations east or west. We take what rings clear and honest and true, but we do not bow to what anyone else tells us, we find It for our self,  we drink directly from the Source, alone, one to one with Life the Beloved One. We go in the other direction of the crowd, we walk independent of collectives, we take our self out and become separate from the group; not buying into the collective, not listening to the din of the gaggle of the herd.

We take off on our own, we break free and we are alone, by our self, single, running with the Glory of a Mind of Our Own-- and when we hear them say "they are all doing it" ---we know it is time to turn around and go the other way.

 Awareness is our Unbound Selfhood already Free and so we lead our self. We follow or Self. We know who we are and We Live free from the passing scene while loving Everything about this scene knowing It is The All in all of God's Light Always.

You are not finished, until you play in that meadow and live there. You can, you know. But only you can take yourself there.

With Love, Sandy

A Little Gift of Song 

About Identity, In Light of Sphere

ABOUT IDENTITY, IN LIGHT OF SPHERE     By William Samuel

In the Mind's Eye I see the Infinite Sphere and Its Self-Awareness, two that are One. 

At its very center, I see the Point of Light, the Infinite Sphere's spiritual Image and Likeness—pure, perfect and immaterial.

Inasmuch as this Point's essence has been “given” Life (which is to say, IS the Image of Life), the living Image sees the images of the qualities and attributes of (1) Infinite Sphere and (2) Infinite Sphere's Image or Self-awareness. That is, the Divine Man is empowered (1) to see, to look “within” Himself and perceive the Perfect Image in toto—His knowledge of IDENTITY, and (2) to look “outside” Himself at the divine Qualities and Attributes in their sequential form, separate and apart, intertwined and interrelated. But “outside and inside are a single one” to Sphere. INSIDE is the Image, outside are images of Image and images of images to infinity. “The KINGDOM OF HEAVEN is within.”

Now understand, “outside” includes the first image of oneself, the “tangible” body. That body is finite image of Image! IMAGE is the REAL Identity; body is the first image of that Image. “Outside” includes images of images to forever. But “outside” is BEHOLDEN to Inside. DOMINION was given to Image, not image.

Once, in blind arrogance, I wrote that I had stopped identifying as image or Image. I acknowledged GOD to be all in all, without need of image or Image. But I was wrong. Absolutely wrong. I should have known the Lights of the world couldn't have been wrong, every one. Even the world “identity” means identical, but the identical Image is what GOD knows GOD to be—this is the Twin—and there is no power in the IMAGE unless it is given to it by God, exactly as the Christ Light said for Himself and His view of “others.” I do not know where my arrogance came from that would deny God the privilege of Self-perception, but I lived that attempt. NOW I know that deep “within” IDENTICAL IMAGE is the Light of Godhead, because THAT is what motivates and directs me.

Who is this “me that is motivated and directed? It looks like an image of an image called William, but it is the Soul of the Divine Identity, IMAGE of God. It is the GOD-view, not the man-view. The man-view, the image of image-view is compounded of arrogance and ignorance until it is understood and surrendered.

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Now I see why the Christ Light of history and His first followers said time and again that one must not love the world but love God. The world is image of the body's images moving toward the macrocosm—and contains all the compounds that comprise materiality. And THAT “matter” is only half substantial, half true—that “half” rooted in the image of the Image. The image of the Image is not a lie; it just isn't the Image itself, just as the Image is not God itself. Just as the Image is beholden to God, so the body and its actions are beholden to Image, the Child, the soul of God!

Listen gently, Reader. Let one not worship Image because it is holy or because it has dominion over everything that creepeth on the earth, but let one worship the INEFFABLE GODHEAD. (The me-sense point of view may very well be the CREATOR of tangible matter and its forms, not God! The mirror “creates” the lifeless images within it.) “Don't call me good,” said the Light of Life. “Call no man good.” “Don't worship me,” he said. “Worship God.” John echoed those words. So did the prophets.

Jesus said also that when you see Him who was not born of woman, to fall on your knees and worship that one. IMAGE comes to image one day in time because Image is being image in timeless Alreadyness. When that one comes, that one brings testimony of GODHEAD. Jesus heralded THAT Light within one. Mankind has turned this process around to venerate the linear herald of Light.

Yet the historic Jesus identified correctly AS that Light and said that all mankind who recognized that Light Within could do the same as he, and more.

In my personal experience at this “time,” the Image is breaking through the ignorance and humanity of me more and more frequently, telling me what to do about “the world” and its images; this seems to be to live the Equation in the world, but most especially to be prepared to do something for my images who are given to Me in the time ahead, even as I have been faithful to them in the time past. “

As I get the beam out of THIS Eye,” the Divine Alchemy renews this view of the world. Not just for me, but for Everyman. 

The world view ending will not be the end of anything, but the CONSCIOUS Presence of Everything which is ALREADY “spread over the face of the land”—and the events of a linear history in time will be like the wink of an eye and a dream we dreampt of our images upon image having power when they didn't really.

Find more in this book by William Samuel "The Child Within Us Lives!"  

Li'l Lijah The Luminious Lighting Bug

Here is a little story told by William Samuel
It's called Lil' Lijah The Light'n Bug

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We hope you enjoy, with much Love, and many thanks to Rich for
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