The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds.  – Thomas Merton

My mind is a magpie collecting bits and pieces of shiny things from all corners of my world.  They glitter and shine in the afternoon light, no matter that they are simply debris of broken glass or twisted metal from a car wreck.  It twinkles and glows in my peripheral vision and I sweep it up and hold it dear.  My mind is full of such flotsam and jetsam. 

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