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Day 27 of 39 · February 1 · The Turn

Far Too Easily Pleased

Today

Ask what you have settled for because it was nearer.

The mud pies in the slum, made by a child who cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. Lewis's charge is not that we want too much but that we are far too easily pleased. February is a good month to audit that, because February is when the small consolations run thin.