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Welcome Thank you for accessing the MERforkids website and spending a little time with me here. My plan is to provide you with a thought each month that will interest you in some way and improve your life. It is not limited to education but will include things which may be happening in my life on a wide variety of topics.
The Surprise I don’t know about you, but I like surprises. I like the surprises that are really a surprise. Although I enjoy birthdays and anniversaries and usually receive a present, the present is frequently not a surprise. I usually have told my wife a few things I would like and typically open the present to one of those things. I enjoy reading and receiving books as presents and a few are sometimes a real surprise, especially from others. Music is such a large part of my life I particularly like to receive a music CD not asked for as a surprise, which is very special. I have been introduced to musicians and singers I would never have purchased at the music store and many I have never heard of until receiving that special CD. I am not much of a gamer, although I might try a few next year. Friends and people I know seem to like them very much and consider them surprises, especially the new and improved versions. I do worry about becoming addicted, as some do, and spending the rest of my life on a computer, gaming to the detriment of everything else. Maybe each of us should give ourselves a time limit concerning gaming! Some of my best surprises have been received in the mail. I look at the package with my name on it and quickly take it to our kitchen table, where I then retrieve a pair of scissors and gently open one side of the package. If the surprise inside is also wrapped, I consider it a double surprise and enjoy opening up the inside package even more. As I finish opening up this second package and take the gift out, I will clear all the packaging and gift wrap from the table and just leave the new surprise in the middle of the table, examining it, handling it, moving it, and then leaving it in the middle of the table to come back at a later time to examine even more. Sometimes I have left it on the table all night and enjoyed it the next day. Depending on how I feel, at some point I start using the surprise. Only then does it start losing the initial surprise factor, although I still cherish many of those surprises years later.
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