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 Super Bowl Sunday  Intention for the day: Do my best to remain upbeat as I sort through my stuff.  The goal is to find things to part with. Happy things for today: With the weather still bitterly cold, I walked three miles on the treadmill this morning.  Yay, steps! Looking outside to the cold. Music has really lifted my spirits today.   April is National Poetry Month.  I looked that up after unpacking a poetry book.  I'll be hiking much of April.  I like writing little rhymes and hope to find inspiration to do that, maybe one every day for April?  Anyhow, I sat and read some of the poems in the book I unpacked.  I'm going to try keeping it close that I might remember and pick it up from time to time and randomly read a poem.  One of the poems I read today was “The Barefoot Boy” by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892).  Mr. Whittier is  supposedly a distant cousin?  It's a good poem.  I admit to having to lo...