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Like a magic mirror it lights up with mean- like a balloon that’s about to burst, and then
ing the longer that you gaze into it, and I I remember to relax and stop trying to hold
bow down in gratitude before the Enlight- on to it, and then it flows through me like
ened Mind that conceived all of this divine rain, and then I can’t feel anything but grati-
beauty. There are some lines at the end of tude for every single moment of my stupid
Sam Mendes’ film American Beauty that little life. You have no idea of what I’m talk-
seem to succinctly express this sentiment: ing about, I’m sure. But don’t worry, you
“I guess I could be pretty pissed-off about will someday.”
what happened to me, but its hard to stay
mad when there’s so much beauty in the Robert Beer
world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all Oxford, England
at once, and it’s too much. My heart fills up Easter Sunday 2003