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Running for a Dream
I will never forget that November day. It was hotter than normal. This was the 1my father and I had waited so long for, because we had been working towards this race for three years. Dozens of familiar faces from church and school flashed across my view. They had come 2 me. I saw worry and 3 on my father's face. Then the race began!
For the first two and a half miles, I felt 4. I had never before been so ready for something. The weeks leading up to the race were filled with controlled5 and a strict diet. My friends hadn't seen me in weeks, but they understood the6 required to make my dream a reality. As in all of my races, I didn't7 out in the front, I loved the pleasure of passing people as my strength overtook their premature speed.
Then without warning, my strength began to decrease. Neck and neck with one of my greatest competitors, I 8 see the finish line. I had begun the final dash into 9 when my knees became weak and my legs gave way. Nothing I could do would make them 10 weight.
I watched as runners rushed by me. 11 I knew my dreams of victory were destroyed, I had to finish the race. However, my legs hurt badly. With all of the 12 left in me, I got on my hands and knees and crawled (爬), inch by inch, across the finish line. Voices, both 13 and familiar, cheered me on. They gave me the courage to keep 14 until the very end.
The doctors were there in seconds, but my eyes searched the crowd for him. There was only one person I wanted to 15to. I whispered, “I'm so sorry, Dad, I'm so sorry I16 you.” He looked at me, saying, “You could never disappoint me. Sometimes these things just 17 ． All that matters is that you did your best.”
“But we worked so 18 ． What about our dream?” He reached over for my hand and said, “Don't you know that you are my dream and it has come true?”
It wasn't long before my running shoes were back on, marking a 19 path for my journey, I learned that all of the miles, the tears, the sweat, and the pain my dad and I experienced together were not for a 20. What I realized, though, was that to him, I was the greatest prize he had ever won.
There was a woman in Detroit, who has two sons. She was worried 1 them, especially the younger one, Ben, 2 he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class 3 fun of him because he seemed so 4.
The mother 5 that she would, herself, have to get her sons to do better in school. She 6 them to go to the Detroit Public Library to read a 7 a week and do a report about it for her.
One day, in Ben's 8, the teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone knew it. Ben 9 up his hand and the teacher let him 10. “Why did Ben raise his hand?” They wondered. He 11 said anything; what could he possibly want to say?
Well, Ben not only 12 the rock; he said a lot about it. He named other rocks in its group and even knew 13 the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were 14. Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book 15.
Ben later went on to the 16 of his class. When he finished high school, he went to Yale University 17 at last became one of the best doctors in the United States.
After Ben had grown up, he 18 something about his mother that he did not know as a 19.
She, herself, had never learned how to 20.
The room in the workhouse where the boys were fed was a large stone hall, and at one end the master and two women served the food. This 1 a bowl of thin soup three times a day, with a piece of bread on Sundays. The boys ate 2 and were always hungry. The bowls never needed 3. The boys polished them with their spoons until they 4 After three months of this slow starvation, one of the boys told the others that so hungry was he 5 one night he might eat the 6 sleeping next to him. He had a wild 7 eye, and the other boys 8 him. After a long 9 they decided that one of them should ask for more food after supper that evening, and Oliver was 10.
The evening arrived; the soup was served, and the bowls were 11 again in a few seconds. Oliver went up to the master, with his bowl in his hand. He felt very 12but also 13with hunger.
“Please, sir, I want some more.”
The master was a fat, healthy man, but he turned very pale. He looked at the little boy in front of him with 14 Nobody else spoke.
“What?” he asked at last, in a 15 voice.
“Please, sir,” replied Oliver, “I want some more.”
The master 16 him with the serving spoon, then seized Oliver's arms and 17 for the beadle（执事）. The beadle came quickly, heard the terrible news, and immediately ran to tell the board.
“He asked for me?” Mr Limbkins, the fattest board member, asked in 18. “Is this really true?”
19 Oliver was led away to be locked up, and a(n)20 of five pounds was offered to anybody who would take him away and use him for work.
A group of graduates got together to visit their old university professor.
The conversation soon turned into complaints about 1 in work and life. To offer his 2 coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and 3 with a large pot of coffee and a 4 of cups—porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal some plain-looking, some expensive, some beautiful—telling them to 5 themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said, “If you have 6 all the nice-looking expensive cups have been taken up, 7 the plain and cheap ones. While it is 8 for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the 9 of your problems and stress.”
“Be assured that the cup itself 10 no quality to the coffee 11 it is just more expensive and in some cases 12 hides what we drink.”
“13 all of you really want is coffee, not the cup, 14 you consciously went for the best cups. And then you began 15 each other's cups.”
Now consider this: 16 is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and 17 life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the18 of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we 19 to enjoy the coffee. Value the coffee, not the cups! Don't let the cups 20 you…enjoy the coffee instead.
If you want to stand out, there is no alternative but hard work.
Once a boy in 1 clothes full of patches (补丁) ran to ask a successful building contractor (承包商) in a construction site, “How could I be as 2 as you when I grow up？”
With a3 at the boy, the contractor replied, “There is a story about three diggers.The first digger liked holding a spade (铁锹) without doing anything but saying that he wanted to be a (n) 4 in the future.The second always liked 5 about the work and his low 6.The third digger liked 7devoting himself to digging.Later, the first was still holding his spade in the 8place and the second took an excuse for early 9.Only the third became a boss.Do you understand the 10 of this story? Just go to buy a 11 shirt and work hard.”
The little boy was 12.So he asked the contractor to explain further.13 the working builders, the contractor replied, “Look at my workers! I can't remember all their names, and even I have no 14 of some of them.Most of them wear blue shirts.But if you look15 ， you will notice a sunburned man in red.He seems to be working harder than others.He is always the first one to work while the last one to leave.It is exactly his red shirt that makes him 16.Soon he will be 17 to my assistant.You know, that is also how I got 18 I am now.I worked hard and wore a striped shirt.My boss 19 me.I also became a boss eventually.”
Success can only 20 action.Working hard is all winners' shared experience for achieving their dreams.
Kellen Parker and Steve Hansen are two Americans who love the Chinese language.They1a website in April "to make Chinese in different places hear Chinese dialects(方言) of all kinds".The "dialect map" has become popular and has2a public discussion on the3of Chinese dialects and how to protect them.
A recent4in (GuangmingDaily) says that，compared with the passion some foreigners have5the Chinese language and dialects，the country's academics don't6enough attention to the subject.Moreover，some experts say there is no7to protect languages and dialects，because they are bound8to adapt to the demands of modern times or9.
If we consider language to be just a(n)10for communication，the article says，the experts' argument is11.But more than being a tool for communication，every language or dialect carries with it the12of history and culture.The extinction (灭绝)of a language or dialect is the extinction of a way of13 ， says the article.
The increasing14of human migration (人口迁移) in today's China requires the use of a15understood language across the country.16for people living away from home，dialects are a great source of cultural and17comfort，says the article.
The article18to say that we cannot and should not control the19or disappearance of a language or dialect，but at the same time we should not forget that20language or dialect has a special cultural and historical meaning.
Body language is the quiet, secret and most powerful language of all! It speaks1 than words. According to specialists, our bodies send out more2 than we realize. In fact, non-verbal communication takes up about 50% of what we really 3 . And body language is particularly 4when we attempt to communicate across cultures.
Indeed, what is called body language is so 5 a part of us that it's actually often unnoticed. And misunderstandings occur as a result of it .6, different cultures treat the7between people differently. Northern Europeans usually do not like having8contact even with friends, and certainly not with9. People from Latin American countries,10, touch each other quite a lot. Therefore, it's possible that in 11it may look like a Latino is 12 a Norwegian all over the room. The Latino, trying to express friendship, will keep moving13. The Norwegian, very probably seeing this as rude behavior, will keep14- which the Latino will in return regard as15.
Obviously, a great deal is going on when people 16 And only a part of it is in the words themselves. And when parties are from 17 cultures, there's a strong possibility of18. But whatever the situation, the best 19is to obey the Golden Rule: treat others as you would like to be 20.
There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world. But only a few of them are very1. English is one of them. Many people 2 it, not only in England and the USA, but in other parts of the world. About 20 million speak it 3 their native language. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it as a 4 language. Many millions are 5 to do so.
Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different 6. Have you ever 7 such advertisements (广告) in the newspapers or magazines? "Learn English in six weeks, or your 8 back..."Of course, it never 9 quite like this.
The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should 10 that we all learned our own language well when we were 11. If we could learn English in the same way, it would not seem so difficult. 12 what a small child does. He listens to what people say. He 13 what he hears. When he is using the language, taking in it, 14 all the time, just imagine how much 15 that he gets!
So it is 16 to say that learning English is easy 17 a good command(掌握) of English depends on(取决于)a lot of practice. And practice needs great effort and 18 much time. Sometimes teachers, records, tapes, books, and dictionaries will 19. But they can't do the student's 20 for him.
We talk about the persistence (坚持不懈) needed to make our dream come true today. Just think of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Their1 certainly didn't happen overnight!
Wilbur was 12 years old and Orville 8 when their father brought home a 2. It was a rubber3 made in France. They 4it so much that they played with it until it broke. Immediately, they began 5 copies. They were hooked on aviation (飞行器制造)! In 1900, as young men, having built their first glider (滑翔机), they decided to 6 it out at Kitty Hawk on Kill Devil Hills. It 7 consistent strong winds, and the somewhat cushioning effects of sand. That first flight was unsuccessful, 8 it didn't stop them. After several more tries, on December 17, 1903, with a much 9 plane, they risked their lives to drive it in the wind. They 10 flying the world's first powered airplane. Beginning at 10:35 a.m. that day, Orville 11 it 120 feet in about 12 seconds! At 12:00, Wilbur flew it 852 feet in 59 seconds! Johnny Moore, one of the five men who12them that morning (in charge of dragging the plane across the sand for positioning), ran to the village of Kitty Hawk 13, "They've made it!" This was the 14 of aviation! At this time, Wilbur was 36 and Orville 32. Roughly 24 years had passed 15 their father gave them that toy!
If you have a 16, work at it. If it doesn't turn out as17, don't give up! Try again! Who wants to live and say somewhere, "If only" or "What if?" 18 what you want and accomplish it. Don't ever give up!19 in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more 20 than unsuccessful men with talent. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts (流浪汉). Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent (无所不能的).
ProjectArt is an arts program providing free arts classes to children at public libraries in major US cities.
1to the arts encourages children's self-worth, helps them communicate and improves their2in academic areas. Yet, since the 1980s, access to arts education for American school children has been on the3.
But where the American public school system is4children, non-profits are5to fill the emptiness, and one organization in particular has6plans to become the largest free art school for children in the country.
ProjectArt, founded by AdarshAlphons in Harlem in 2011, is7to New Orleans and San Francisco, two cities with many homeless young people and giving the organisation a(n)8in a total of eight cities across the US.
Its executive director, Diana Buckley Muchmore9with ProjectArt in its early days, and one experience impressed on her the10that art can make on a child's development.11her friend Alphons in teaching in a Harlem community center, Buckley Muchmore met a boy. "He was very quiet, but I12with him through a sculpture he was making13wood, and he slowly started to14to describe his work," she remembers.
Since then, Buckley Muchmore has watched as ProjectArt has embraced a model of15with the country's public library systems. The libraries give them16space, access to existing communities and materials to17the children's creations.
In the meantime, the organization is working to serve the particular needs and take18of the resources of its newest cities. In San Francisco, Buckley Muchmore has an eye on big companies like Airtbnb and Adobe, which she hopes to19for funding. The organization also receives20from foundations and individuals.
"In terms of less populated communities, we'll get there too," says Buckley Muchmore. "Eventually, we'll be in all the cities that have libraries."
Have you ever had problems in your life and don't know how to be happy? If 1, you will find "Being a Happy Teenager" by Australian writer Andrew Matthews 2.
In his book, Matthews3us how to have a happy life and answers the 4 of teenagers.
Matthews writes about many 5 in the book, such as parents and friends, and the book 6 we should stop being angry and learn to forgive. The book tells us of useful skills 7 how to put what you have learned into pictures of your mind to 8 your memory better.
Many teenagers think 9 happiness comes from a good exam result, 10 praise from other people. But you can 11 be happy even when there are no such "good" things. Success comes from a(n) 12 attitude. If you 13 from problems, you will have success in the future.
Some school students have 14 of being too tall or too short. But Matthews tells us that 15 comes from thinking about things in a positive 16. If you are 17, people notice you and you can get a 18 view at the movie; if you are short, your clothes and shoes 19 less room in your bedroom! This is Matthews' most important 20: you choose to be happy!
This article is for all of the teenagers out there. Even though 1 you are years from being fully grown, society regularly expects you to adult. Yes, you are 2 in many ways: many of you drive and do so quite safely, and you handle schedules that would 3 many adults. But you probably cannot process caffeine (咖啡因) as constantly as your parents can because of your still-growing bodies and brains.
I understand it feels grown-up to be drinking a cup of Starbucks. But all of this caffeine may worsen your anxiety, affect tonight's sleep and tomorrow's school performance, 4 nutrient absorption and even cause real trouble when mixed with alcohol. The following four aspects may well 5the theme of this article.
The power of caffeine
Caffeine is widely considered a drug that is socially acceptable, universally used, even cool, but it still causes 6 symptoms such as headaches, fatigue and a lack of attention when removed from coffee-addicts' diets.
How much is healthy?
Caffeine is by no means a nutrient; you do not need it to be healthy. 7, it is a substance that can leave you lacking nutrients because it has been shown to reduce calcium (钙). Caffeine probably causes the body to release water. And the more caffeinated drinks you consume, the less likely you are to drink water. So experts say that adolescents should consume 8 amounts of caffeine a day (≤100 mg).
Caffeine's 9
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 65 percent of middle and higher schoolers are 10 to insufficient sleep on school nights. Some of their sleep problems can be mainly attributed to (归因于) caffeine, which can remain in the body for seven hours after 11, thus causing teens' worse performance the next day. It is widely assumed that adequate sleep 12 proper growth and brain development. During childhood and adolescence, the brain goes through a period called synaptic pruning (突触修剪) when unnecessary connections are promoted.
Caffeine labelling
Caffeine is not listed on the Nutrition Facts column on food labels because it is not a 13. It may be listed as an ingredient, but the amount is not required. Caffeine is now added to foods such as gum, candy and water, along with makeup and beauty products that 14 to reduce swelling (肿块).
Taste preferences and
eating habits are often cultivated in childhood and adolescence, so teens, when
you consume sweet, caffeinated drinks every time you feel sluggish (无精打采 
), you are creating a pattern that may be hard to break as an adult. It is advisable to come up with other 15 ways to boost energy so that you can master adulting better than many adults.
When your child is supposed to be doing homework, are they chatting with their friends on Facebook or playing games? Many studies have shown that multitasking doesn't1, 2your child is probably proudly claiming they can do ten things3! Many people believe that they can4two or more tasks at the same time, but Dr. Edward Hallowell says this is5. The reality is that multitasking6poor job performance.
New hand-held7such as smartphones, iPads, games and social networking sites make it very easy to multitask and "attention8" leading to difficulty focusing on the task9, such as listening in the classroom or doing homework."10, the brain actually11kids for multitasking even though your child's performance on every task gets worse and worse. Kids don't know that they are doing12because they feel better when they multitask," says Dr Edward Hallowell.
13the appearance of hand-held devices and social networking sites, teachers have noticed a difference in14performance, critical thinking skills and how information is15. "Multitasking prevents people from gaining a deep understanding of the information they are trying to learn," says Dr Edward Hallowell. Kids have a difficult time sticking with a "difficult to understand" topic and16to allow themselves to be distracted(分散的), to tune out and switch17 to Facebook or using their cell phones18working harder at understanding a difficult subject or problem. In the long19, multitasking affects grades. One study showed that kids that use the Internet while in class did20on tests resulting in lower grades.
I consider myself something of an expert on apologies. A quick temper(脾气) has1 me with plenty of opportunities to make them. In one of my earliest 2, my mother is telling me, "Don't watch the 3 when you say 'I'm sorry'. Hold your head up and look the person in the 4, so he'll know you 5it."
My mother thus made the key point of a(n) 6 apology: it must be direct. You must never 7 to be doing something else. You do not 8 a pile of letters while apologizing to a person 9 in position after blaming him or her for a mistake that turned out to be your10. You do not apologize to a hostess, whose guest of honor you treat 11, by sending flowers the next day without mentioning your bad 12.
One of the important things you should do for an 13 apology is readiness to 14 the responsibility for our careless mistakes. We are used to making excuses, which leaves no 15 for the other person to 16 us. Since most people are open-hearted, the no-excuse apology leaves both parties feeling 17 about themselves. That, after all, is the18 of every apology. It 19 little whether the apologizer is wholly or only partly at fault: answering for one's 20 encourages others to take their share of the blame.
Parents, the most selfless people on Earth are the biggest reason for your existence. However, we often1 to appreciate(感激) their efforts. And by the time we realize this, it's 2 late. So, don't wait for any 3day to say sweet things to your parents and tell them how 4you're for whatever they've done for you.
First,5you often forget to call your parents and 6them how much you miss them, they may often feel you're not making any7to stay in touch with them.
Second, you should hug them. You can't possibly 8whatever they've done for you, but this small gesture(姿势) will9make them feel special.
Third, let your emotions out in time, because you10know, there might not be a tomorrow to express your11. We all have been mean to our 12at times, and have said things that 13them deeply. If so, all you can do is apologize (道歉) from the bottom of your 14.
Finally, 15them to know that they're the real superheroes in your life. You can never 16them enough. They've always been your17to move forward. They taught you all the small and big things about life. They always 18 you to work hard and become a successful person in life. Even though you may have19 in a race or failed in an exam, they were and still are your number one20 . So, express yourself before your parents before it's too late.
We have a problem that is deeply rooted in our world today. When it comes to the holidays, people tend to forget that it's the season of giving, 1the season of receiving. We tend to be more 2 about what we'll receive on Christmas morning as opposed to looking at the holidays as 3 to help out those who don't have it as good as we do.
So, how can we 4 the culture around the holidays and make sure that people are emphasizing the opportunity to 5 as much as they are looking forward to opening up their stockings? During this holiday season, many people receive countless 6 from organizations seeking gifts to help them fulfill their mission: helping the old, providing food for the poor, 7for the homeless, care for 8 animals and more.
Giving 9 is the right thing to do, though many of us are 10 by the task. Whether or not we have much money to 11, it isn't always easy to 12what we have worked so hard for, especially when we have set 13 goals—saving for retirement, a vacation or a rainy day.
Even with so many reasons to be unwilling, the advantages of giving outweigh them all. When we give to those in need, either 14to persons or through 15 , we make a positive 16 to the lives of others and to our own.
As we are reminded, giving ensures that we are not17 by material things, but free through the abundance of18 . That we have all things is not because we have a good 19of money in the bank, not because we have skill and intelligence with which to 20bread, but because we are fortunate enough. May we be good at giving from what we have received from our fortune.
Certainty：Over-rated and Over-rewarded
Type the words "kind of" or "perhaps" into an email in Microsoft Outlook and the program might well tell you to think again. If the Al-powered "Microsoft Editor" judges that you are not sounding 1 enough, it will soon give you a word of warning:" Words expressing uncertainty will 2 your impact."
To me, this suggestion precisely expresses something we've got wrong in society. We live in a world that 3 those who speak with confidence-even when that is misplaced-and gives very little opportunity to perform to those who 4 doubt. "We tend to listen to those experts who tell us a simple, clear and confident story. Why? Because that's 5 satisfying," says Dan Gardner, author of Future Babble, "That's saying let me sweep away the uncertainty for you'."
Research shows that the human brain is "programmed" to hate 6: a 2016 study found that when volunteers were given electric shocks, their stress levels were highest when they had no idea whether they were going to be given a shock-higher even than subjects who were told they would 7 get one.
We should first know that while confident-sounding experts might be giving us what our brains desire, the 8 they are providing is probably false. Psychologist Philip Tetlock divided up forecasters into "foxes" and "hedgehogs". Foxes consider all sorts of different approaches sand perspectives, and combine those into distinct conclusions. 9, hedgehogs tend to view the world through the lens of one single defining idea. That makes the hedgehogs 10 forecasters but more likely to get attention.
Perhaps we care less about the truth and more about enjoying some sense of 11 however short-lived that might be. But wouldn't it be better if we held experts to account? Mr. Gardner suggests tagging speakers with some kind of record of previous 12 much as we are given performance statistics for racehorses or baseball players.
Highly confident statements also 13 polarization (两极化), encouraging others to respond in the same kind of language when they disagree. "There's a natural tendency to push back with equal amounts of 14 says Daniel Drezner, a political scientist.
Is it time to give a bit more attention to the 15? Full of certainty on the need to stop paying so much attention to those expressing certainty, I say yes.
How to help your kids find a purpose? You don't have to start with the really big questions. Quick, what's the meaning of life? Many of us may not be able to answer that, but that doesn't 1 our kids don't have questions or need answers.
"The sense that your personal life is 2 to you is a basis of psychological well-being," says Michael F. Steger, director of the laboratory for Meaning and Quality of Life at Colorado State University. Not only that, it is tightly tied to being happier, more positive, more 3, more caring, more helpful, more resilient (有弹性的), and more satisfied in your life, relationships, and work.
"But helping your kids find meaning doesn't mean parents have to 4 all life's ancient mysteries," Steger says. The 5 is to understand the difference between the meaning of life and the meaning in life.
"We do not have to start with the biggest and most troubling questions about our lives," Steger says. "We can start with trying to 6 how, today, right now, we are going to do one thing that makes the story of our lives more positive, or makes a positive difference to someone else. "
With kids in 7 school, Steger says, "At the most basic level, our best hopes for our children are that they feel their lives matter and that they 8." To start conversations along those lines, says Steger, "You can ask questions about what they think their best 9 or strengths are, whether they have good relationships with other people, whether they care about others. You can ask them about times when they have made a difference, made someone feel better, felt 10 for doing something, or helped someone out. All of these kinds of questions can start a conversation about your kid's 11 way of being in and contributing to the world. "
In middle school, says Steger, "Kids are being exposed to ideas, behaviors, assumptions, and priorities that might be 12 different from the ones they have always assumed were true." So for kids of this age, parents can start conversations focusing on how your children's sense of who they are, how they related to others and what life is has been 13.
By high school, according to Steger, "We hope our children see how much their lives matter, see that they are at the beginning of an exciting and strengthening life story, and have some slight ideas about 14. "But the question of what you want to do with your life is too big for a single conversation, says Steger. Instead, he encourages parents to have 15, smaller conversations with their kids about how they view themselves and their lives, and what kind of impact they would like to make.
Many freshmen find their first year of high school frightening. Students feel a（n） 1 of anxiousness and excitement as they 2 their four-year journey. Many freshmen are becoming involved in activities around campus to 3 the new school.
"My first week at Freedom was frightening and 4 ." said Caden Kitchen, "but my sister Avery, who is a senior, 5 me out."
By his sister showing him around campus, Kitchen felt more 6 and prepared to begin his year. He joined the golf team and planned to join the hockey (曲棍球) team to follow his love for 7 and meet new people.
Many students have older 8 who are willing (愿意) to show them around campus.
" 9 upperclassmen helped me make new friends and adapt to this new campus," explained Madison Clayton. Clayton is also looking forward to playing softball on the Freedom team where she hopes to meet 10 friends.
Sports are a 11 way for freshmen to meet new people and to get involved in the school. Besides making friends, freshman year can still be 12 .
"I seem to be at the 13 of the school food chain (食物链)," Shane Lenoir said. "It looks like everyone else on campus is 14 than me."
"High school was frightening at first," Joshua Brant said, "but, I'm excited to take on my next four 15 ."
We were told many things as parents who were expecting a baby. There was only one thing I actually 1 " You are going to learn the most important things from your 2," we were told.
There are only a few 3our boy can say. After "momma" and "daddy", "more" is probably the word he uses most, and 4 anything from fun to food. By far his most important and 5 used expression is "wow". He only says "wow" when something really 6 him.
We recently spent the night at our friends 'house. They only had one extra room so we 7our bed and the baby's cot (婴儿床) in the same room. I slept well but 8up too early and couldn't get back to sleep. I was 9 my day, a Sunday, and all the jobs that I needed to do. 10 of them was going to be much fun.
I heard my child made a 11 He rolled over, opened his eyes and let out a cheerful "wow". Suddenly. I learnt something.
Despite everything I've learnt about "good thoughts", "looking on the 12 side" an "taking it a day at a time", I woke up feeling 13. This little boy, with no 14 , was at the place I've been seeking for. To wake up in the morning, take a look at the world, and say "wow" is probably as close to 15 as a person could ever get.
I'm sure our child will 16 wake up, as most of us do only to say "oh no". I wish I knew what I could do to 17 this happening. I wish he could 18 me the way he sees things now.
If only we could make ourselves 19 what it takes to open our eyes in the morning, see that we are alive in a 20 world and say "wow".
