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  • Kirby Neumann-Rea

WELL SAID: — ‘Old future’s gone, old future’s gone/war is the beast of last resort/the old future’s gone.” — John Gorka

Opinion

‘Every, every minute’: lessons from wearing the Happiness Lens

  • KATHY WATSON

It’s 1963, and I’m in Mrs. Fridley’s first grade class in Salsipuedes Elementary School in Watsonville, Calif. I’ve been handed a thin piece of 8 1/2 by 11 pulpy muddy-white paper, set on a landscape view, the top half empty for a drawing, the bottom half set with wide pale blue lines.