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Happy

Happy

May Sarton writes of happiness, in the quiet at home.

I am so happy when I dance that I smile with joy.
I wonder about the Sufis spinning
and if it is the same.
The poetry has that joy
and anyone who calls God/Dess the Beloved
has my attention.
One who was almost a friend
would laugh with me at restaurants.
Twice strangers thank us for having so much fun.
say our laughter gives them joy.
Thinking about happiness,
I think of my son’s capacity for joy
and wonder where he got it.
Surprise: from me, I think.
From me.

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Reveal

The photograph in the Ragtag Daily Prompt guess yesterday is of a beach object. I was sure that it was a fossil, but a fossil WHAT? I picked it up about a year ago.

Last week a friend comes by and says, “Oh, I know. It’s a mammoth tooth.”

REALLY?! I am thrilled. And go search the internet.

https://www.burkemuseum.org/news/mammoth-find-sequim

Mammoths turn out to be Washington State’s state fossil. Mammoths are also the state fossil of a bunch of other states. Texas doesn’t have a state fossil, it has a state dinosaur.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_fossils

Other people have found mammoth fossils on the beaches here.

A big find: Mammoth molar discovered on Sequim beach

And they have found mammoth remains, including teeth. Mine is just part of a tooth. The chewing edge is shown in today’s photograph.

Did you guess?