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Why Bilbo Baggins? Saruman believes that it is only great power...that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I found it is the small things...every day deeds of ordinary folk...that keeps the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love.  Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps it is because I am afraid...and he gives me courage.

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God grant us the serenity to accept 

the things we cannot change,

the courage to change the things we can,

and the wisdom to know

the difference.

Amen.

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Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that hfair thou owest;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breatyhe or eyes can see,

So long lives this and this gives lifet to thee.

William Shakespeare

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Fortune in a Coffee Cup

Chapter 4 contains interpretations of the symbols and images you may find in your coffee grounds.  The first sentence or two of each meaning is printed in bold lettering.  Use this information for fast, simple readins that are not in depth--a morning readin in that commuter cup of coffee on the bus, a fast reading for a friend at work, or possibly a quick break-time reading about a specific question for yourself (how will that report I wrote be accepted? or will I have a weird or great blind date tonight?) for instance.  The balance of the interpretations for each image is more thorough, giving specifics on how the meaning changes with placement in the cup...
B R E A T H E . . .

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Excerpt:
Romeo and Juliet

[Enter] Chorus.

Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie,
   And young affection gapes to be his heir;
That fair for which love groaned for and would die,
   With tender Juliet matched, is now not fair.
Now Romeo is beloved and loves again,
   Alike bewitched by the charm of looks;
But to his foe supposed he must complain,
   And she steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks.
Being held a foe, he moy not have access
   To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear,

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Excerot:
Fortune in a Coffee Cup

and the person who is holding the cup, and therefore is always a key area to consider in a reading.  Anything near the handle of the cup, andy type of image at all, is in the area of strength and therefore is a strong image for the person getting the reading--one could even say intense.  Numbers, letters of the alphabet, or images tend to be stronger, and more pwerful here.  Look at it this way--like something you love with a passion--that is the difference between seeing something anywhere else in the cup and here in the place of strength.

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