“I’d dare to make more mistakes next time. I’d relax, I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more river. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual troubles, bit I’d have fewer imaginary ones… If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies.”
Nadine Stair1
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- From the anthology “If I had my life to live over,” edited by Sandra Haldeman Martz, published by Papier-Mache Press, Watsonville CA, 1992. ↩︎