SPACES WE LIVE IN RANGE FROM SMALLER TO LARGE

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Sunday, January 16, 1994

I find it incongruous that although I love big places such as high mountains, wide prairies, the great vaults of the starry heavens, I find such comfort and coziness in small places. Yet, like most everyone else, I seem destined to spend most of my time in what I call the middle-sized places, from the porch to the garage, from the garage to the grocery store, to town to keep some appointment, or to some other not-very-far-away point then home to the middle-sized again. Of course, I'm talking about physical spaces.

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