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Thank you, Rex. Grateful for your writings and for the hope today’s inspired. Wishing you and your family a joyful holiday and a healthy and hopeful new year. God bless.

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"There must be some hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of birds living inside the four-mile radius [of the City of London], and it is rather a pleasing thought that none of them pays a halfpenny of rent." (George Orwell, "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad," 12 April 1946). Because of our 2023 move from Troy to Tucson, Arizona, Gila woodpeckers have replaced the pileated woodpecker on the suet feeder outside our kitchen window, and also on the two hummingbird feeders, where they slurp up nectar that we mostly put there to feed the abundant Sonoran Desert hummingbirds. The Gila woodpeckers build their nests in the majestic Saguaros that abound here, and then owls occupy any such nest that gets abandoned. So, Rex, it is of course the same nurturing Earth, only 2,500 miles away from you. Sun still comes up over the Rincon Mountains every morning, regardless of the day's news on MSNBC. Come see for yourself. The Carroll Arms Tucson awaits you. Happy New Year.

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