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You need not suppose,—it was! I hate to think of how she suffers. Look at yonder lot of firs and spruce with the gray, green, drooping mosses on them. After a rain that hillside looks like a great cascade. 38You see the moss hangs in arrow-head shapes, like those of falling water. It is so hard to set these simple things in words—you can describe them with half a dozen pencil-marks. I envy you the power. I have to stick to my old habit of word-sketches, about which our friend, the doctor, once wrote, as you know. On Sunday we will have a run up-stream, and a big wood-and-water chat.” As he spoke the canoe slipped around a little headland, and was at once close to the cliff camp. “That doesn’t look very peaceful,” cried Rose. “Oh, they will be killed!” and she started up. “Keep still,” said her father; “you will upset us.” What she saw looked grim enough: a tangle of three boys, rolling down some fifteen feet of graveled slope; then the three afoot; two or three savage blows, fierce cries, and a sudden pause, as Lyndsay called out: “Hullo there!—quit that, Jack! Stop, Ned!” Their faces were very red, their clothes covered with dirt. There was silence and instant obedience. Mrs. Lyndsay stood imploring at the top of the cliff, and Anne was standing by with a queer smile on her face, and her fingers in a book. “Who began it, boys? What is it all about?” Jack spoke first: “Dick hit Ned, and he’s too small for him, and so I hit Dick.” “He might have let us alone. I’m as good as Dick any time,” said the slightest of the lads, with no show of gratitude. “He said I was a fool,” explained Dick. “Ned’s quite a match, but Jack can’t keep out of a row.” 39“And so it was two to one, was it? I can’t stand that: no more fishing to-day or to-morrow, Master Jack.” “Yes, sir.” “And now, what was this war about?” “Well, Ned he said Claverhouse was a bloody villain, and I said he was a gallant gentleman, and Ned said I was a fool.” “That was a difference of sentiment which has cost blood before,” laughed Anne, from the bluff. Ned grinned as he wiped a bloody nose. “Oh, do keep quiet, Anne,” said her brother; “this is my affair. How is it, Ned, and you, Dick? Is it settled? If not, there is room back of the house. This fighting before women is not to my taste. But is all this just as Dick says, Ned?” “Why, father, I—I said it.” And Dick’s face flushed. “You are right, sir; I beg pardon. As you seem indisposed to have it out, shake hands; but an honest shake. It must be peace or war; no sullenness.” “All right, sir. I’m sorry, Dick.”

but that was all that had

Some of the passengers, gazing from the windows,[7] had ventured to cry, “Shame,” but that was all that had come of it till Ralph Stetson, who had been standing with a group of his friends at the other end of the platform of the Pine Pass station, in the heart of the Canadian Rockies, happened to see what was going forward. Without a word he had hastened from them and come to the rescue. Ralph was a boy whose blood always was on fire at the sight of cruelty and oppression, and it appeared to him that the brakeman was being unnecessarily rough. Besides, there was something in the big, appealing eyes of the sufferer, and his ragged, ill-clad form, that aroused all his sympathies. So it came about that he had tried to check the punishment with the words quoted at the beginning of this chapter　bioderma matricium　. Now he stood facing the brakeman who appeared quite willing for a minute to drop the lad he was maltreating and turn on the newcomer. Perhaps, though, there was something in Ralph’s eye that held him back. Old “King-pin” Stetson’s[8] son looked thoroughly business-like in his broad-brimmed woolen hat, corduroy jacket and trousers, stout hunting boots and flannel shirt, with a handkerchief loosely knotted about the neck. Evidently he had come prepared to rough it in the wild country in the midst of which the train had come to a halt　bvi company formation in hong kong　. His life and experiences in the strenuous country along the Mexican border had toughened Ralph’s muscles and bronzed his features, and he looked well equipped physically to carry out the confidence expressed in his cool, clear eyes. “Who are you, anyhow?” the brakeman hurled at him, growing more aggressive as he saw some of his mates running toward him from the head of the long train where the two big Mogul locomotives were thundering impatiently. “Never mind that for now. drop that boy and I’ll pay his fare to wherever he wants to go　Led Outdoor Spotlights 　.”

presence of the man to whom

Francis had learned patience in dealing with his parishioners, who were incapable of a direct statement. Mrs. Lipsett had no intention of being mysterious. It only showed that she could not bring herself to the point of open discussion of her affairs with a stranger. She had flung a certain amount of anger into her letter, all the anger she was capable of feeling, and she was not equal to the task of whipping it up again now that she was in the presence of the man to whom she had written in her first desire to injure Frederic. She made an effort and went on　wet cat food　: Francis did not hear her. He was still trying to grasp the fact, but once more he found himself confronted with the difficulty that he could not take Frederic seriously. That Frederic should be, regularly or irregularly, on the point of becoming a father struck him as comic and grotesque, and yet (he said to himself) it was only to be expected that in course of time the fate that had overtaken himself should overtake his son also　Comfort Zone　. But also a man was usually given time to get accustomed to the idea. In the ordinary course a man introduced a young woman to his father and mother—(with a pang he thought of Mrs. Folyat’s reception of this event!)—they were engaged, [Pg 163]married, and as bluntly as possible the Church service announced the probable consequences　leadership skills　. Everything went smoothly and one hoped for the best. But Frederic, the buffoon, the play-actor, had dispensed with all this; had, by a sort of conjuring trick, inveigled him into a strange house, and left him with a very cool and collected young woman with a strong accent and an angry mother whose speech was of the broadest, and without a word of marriage, he was told—he was told—what was he told? With a start Francis realised that he was not in the least angry, as he ought to have been, as he had every right to be, and that he was thinking of the thing without the least reference to morality. He could not fit the formula he used for ordinary offenders to the case of his son, and, being honest, though slow and sluggish of mind, he admitted to himself that his one desire was to avoid having his wife know. He looked from the young woman to her mother and saw what a serious matter it was to them and gave up his unprofitable attempt to see the thing in connection with Frederic—(who threw it all out of perspective)—and, with a very real feeling for the two women, he said:

had an aquiline nose

THERE was once a time, and not so long ago either, when gentle people were so gentle that the males could not (with the countenance of their families) enter upon any profession other than the Army, the Navy, or the Church Neo Derm Beauty Box . Francis Christopher Folyat was a male member of a gentle family that had done no work for two generations and, unfortunately, had not been clever enough to keep its revenues from dwindling. He was the eldest son and he had two brothers, so that there was one Folyat for each of the three professions, if enough patronage could be collected from their various titled and more or less influential connections. Francis had a snub nose, William had an aquiline nose which his mother adored, and Peter had a nose which betrayed a very remote Jewish infection of the blood of the race Exuviance . Parenthetically let it be observed that the name Folyat should be written with two little fs—ffolyat, for so the name was spelt by the only really distinguished Folyat, Henry, who had been mixed up in the Gunpowder Plot, so that his name is printed to this day in more than one History of England, and to this day, in spite of its deep-rooted conservatism, the family is proud of that insurgent son. He marks its descent for all to see, and, as it is all so long ago, it is easy to forget that he failed to do that for which certain politicians have become infamous, namely, to blow up the House of Lords and, with it, his cousins, the Baron Folyat and the Viscount Bampfield of his day. He escaped from England, and the French Feuillats, of whom the [Pg 2]present representative keeps a newspaper kiosk on the Rue de Rivoli, just outside the Métro station by the Louvre, are his direct descendants. English interest in that branch of the family ceases with the conspirator Henry bvi company . The grandfather of Francis Folyat had a seat in the country and a mansion in London, also a coach and a barouche, an advowson or two, and a vast number of servants; also a large collection of portraits, including a Van Dyck, a Holbein, and a Sir Peter Lely. The father of Francis Folyat left the seat in the country in a dilapidated condition, and only so much else as he could not possibly avoid leaving. However, Baron Folyat and Viscount Bampfield behaved very handsomely and agreed to assist the widow with their patronage. Baron Folyat’s magnanimity stopped short at his promise, but Viscount Bampfield was as good as his word, and when the time came for Francis to enter upon a career he procured him a commission in His Majesty’s Army. Francis was highly delighted at this, and saw himself stepping into the Duke of Wellington’s shoes when that illustrious man should be gathered to that fold where the most illustrious are even as the meanest of God’s creatures. He spent a glorious day in the top of his favourite oak-tree in the park planning heroic wars for England and telling the birds that at last they had something to sing about. He had never thought of it before, but, as it had been decided that he was to be a soldier, he flared to the project, saw himself in a red coat charging like Marmion, or dancing at a ball like that described so melodramatically by the wicked poet, Lord Byron, when Belgium’s capital had “gathered there her beauty and her chivalry”; more, since it might be his duty to die for England, he fetched up an England worth dying for, a heroic, majestic king, a cause, and a God cursing England’s enemies. He thoroughly enjoyed himself and prepared a martial oration in good Ciceronic periods for his mother’s benefit, when, as he knew she would, she gave him her blessing and delivered herself of a homily over her soldier-son.

and took ship for Ireland

His interior struggle, from this day forth, went from bad to worse. With the unaffected simplicity of his character, he talked over his difficulties not only with Cheyney, but with any one at Oxford who seemed able to help him. As a consequence, the Grocers’ Company, whose exhibition he still held, heard rumours, grew uneasy, and began to suspect him, ending in 1568 by inviting Campion up to London to save his credit by preaching at Paul’s Cross, and publicly “favouring,” as they expressed it, “the religion now authorized.” He begged for time, and that being granted, for more time. He attended a court of the Company in order to plead engagements, and to say that he was not his own man, while deep in academic duties and at the service of undergraduates: “divers worshipful men’s children,” he calls them. He was Public Orator and Proctor, in fact, by now, as well[20] as Fellow and Tutor of his College. (He never resided long enough to take his Doctor’s degree.) He exacted from the Company a written statement of the dogmas he was expected to avow; and finding it impossible to subscribe to the hot heterodoxy thus laid down, he cut his first tether by resigning his exhibition Office Interior Design . His most brilliant colleague at St. John’s, Gregory Martin, who had protested in vain against Campion’s diaconate (which was to cause the recipient extreme remorse for a long time), had become a convert to Catholicism, and sacrificed all his secular prospects. He wrote to his dear friend to warn him against ambition, and to urge on him escape from moral bondage. “Come!” the fervent letter cried; “if we two can but live together, we can live on nothing. If this be too little, I have money; and if this also fails, one thing is left: ‘they that sow in tears shall reap in joy!’” Such earnest words, though seeming wasted, had their share in shaking Edmund Campion’s rest Benz SUV . With the summer term of 1570 his Proctorate expired. He spent the Long Vacation[21] in tutoring the eight-years-old Harry Vaux, eldest son of Lord Vaux of Harrowden, who afterwards beautifully redeemed his childish promise. The end of Michaelmas term found Campion face to face for the last time with that life which he had so loved, and in which, with his scientific enthusiasm for letters, he had been such a wonderful inspiration to young men. There was no conscious motive in his heart deeper than a thirst for such freedom as had become difficult in a Puritanizing University, when he cut himself loose, slipped out of it for good, and took ship for Ireland whitening . In the new move he had the approbation of Leicester, and the companionship of a much-attached Oxford disciple, Richard Stanihurst, who is remembered by posterity only for his grotesque translation of Virgil. Campion may well have left home with the understanding that he should have a clear educational field in Dublin, but he arrived a little too late. The outlook had been very bright. Some good men then in power were eager for the revival of the extinct University of Dublin, an ancient Papal foundation,[22] but ruined, as all the great Schools were (most of them permanently, some only temporarily), by the religious changes. The chief supporters of the plan were enthusiastic, far-sighted, and most liberally inclined towards Catholics. Fear and prejudice therefore stepped in, in the person of Elizabeth’s Irish Bishops. The Lord Chancellor, Dr. Weston, wrote privately to the Queen, deploring the popularity of the scheme, and begging her to take the unborn foundation “into her merciful, motherly care.” She followed that advice. In token thereof, in due season arose Trinity College, Dublin, as a complete checkmate to the earlier project, quite safe for evermore from Papist blight. Thus was Campion cheated of a continuance of his natural vocation, in serving upon the staff of the new University. Two of his friends who had most concern in it were James Stanihurst, father of Richard, and Sir Henry Sidney, then Lord Deputy of Ireland, who had proffered it lands and money. Leicester would have provided Campion with a letter of introduction to Sir Henry, his own brother-in-law. The latter’s[23] young son, Philip, was at this time a student in Oxford, where his governor, Thomas Thornton of Christ Church, afterwards Vice-Chancellor, had been constantly in Campion’s society. Sir Henry Sidney always bore himself most kindly towards Campion. The latter lived, a more than welcome guest, under the roof of James Stanihurst, then Recorder of Dublin, and Speaker of the local House of Commons. Stanihurst was the head of an Anglo-Irish family not openly Catholic since Queen Mary’s reign. Indeed, in his public capacity, he had often sided against Catholicism, although he was as friendly as Sidney himself to those who professed it. In the midst of this temporizing household, Campion, himself a temporizer, came during the winter to be doubted by certain bigots outside. Very possibly he was too free-spoken. Campion “came to Ireland believing in practically all Catholic dogmas, even in the Eucharist, and in the authority of the Council of Trent.” The impression may have got abroad that his then unknown variety of Anglicanism differed little from the dangerous creed of times past, lately[24] discovered to be the proper business of the police! Whatever the reason, Campion began to be a marked man. Sir Henry Sidney told Stanihurst with heat, that so long as he was Governor he would see to it that “no busy knave of them all should trouble him,” on Campion’s account. Under this unpleasant circumstance of espial, added to the disappointment he had just undergone, the sensitive exile presently fell ill, and got a most affectionate nursing from the Stanihursts, till his strength revived. He started as soon to write a treatise on a subject of which his mind, up to now, had been full: the character and aim of the ideal youth at the Universities. This De Juvene Academico reminds us of a theme by another great Oxonian who was in Dublin three hundred years later, and had also to face the heartbreaking failure of an Irish University dreamed of, and not to be. Campion afterwards recast his fine little work, and under its second form it is to be found among the few Opuscula published after his death. His comely face and gracious manner were quickly taken into favour in his Dublin[25] circle. While he was gaining a contrary repute on hearsay, the few who had access to him nicknamed him “the Angel.”

And here I am

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contained as many as thirty

Today being Sunday, a day of rest and gladness when even prisoners do not work, I visited the central gaol of Vienna. Permission is not often granted; in order to obtain it, it was necessary to gain the consent of the President of the Austrian Republic. My object HKUE amec in going was to see for myself to what extent starvation is making criminals out of children and so adding one more grim touch, by destroying characters as well as bodies, to the monstrous sum of Europe's child tragedy.

Before the war the Viennese were among the most happy and law-abiding of citizens. What famine can accomplish in the manufacture of criminals was illustrated by what I saw on this visit.

It was a sunny day with a sky of intensest blue. The snow and slush HKUE DSE of Saturday had frozen over, so that the streets gleamed brilliantly in white and steel-gray patches. About the Ring, which encirles the old royal palace, crowds were promenading in the worn finery of pre-war days. There was almost a breath of hope—an unwonted alertness.

We drew up before a frowning pile of buildings, the windows of which are heavily grated, before whose entrances men with rifles stood on guard. We were immediately conducted to the office of the prison-director; he had something to say to us. He was a very humane man and most eager to impress us with his humanity. He had sent for us to warn us that we were about to encounter sights which would probably shock us. Since the war the crime-wave had been on the increase in all countries—especially in those which were most hungry. People seemed to be losing their faculty for distinguishing between mine and thine. This was the case in Austria, with the consequence that the supply of gaols could not cope with the demand of the criminals.

All the gaols were overcrowded. This one was. Cells which had HKUE ENG been built to hold one prisoner, now contained four; those built to hold nine contained as many as thirty. Of course the sanitary accommodations were insufficient. He did not want us to believe that what we were about to see was typical of Austrian efficiency. We should discover that only one prisoner out of four had a bed; that their personal linen was changed only once a month and that the cells were verminous. We should also discover that the greater part of the prisoners had not been brought to trial—many of them had been awaiting their trial three months. These lamentable conditions had produced frequent riots, which had only been quelled by flooding the cells to the depth of a yard. Still worse, children were displaying an increasing tendency to theft. Of course, that might be due to starvation. In pre-war days they had been dealt with in juvenile-court, but now all children of fourteen and up had to be herded with adults. There were so many of them. That was the trouble. Under the circumstances what else could be done? He bade us good-bye with a courtly politeness. His last words were a petition that we would not be shocked. But we were.

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The sky runs gray, the smoke wet-yellow. Behind the house, up in the shaggy hem of mountainside, these colors mix in windy distance, making the hillside itself run a muddy green. On the naked bank between the yard and humming river’s edge, a pack of hounds pads back and forth, whimpering with cold and brute frustration, whimpering and barking at an object that dangles out of their reach, over the water, twisting and untwisting, swaying stiffly at the end of a line tied to the tip of a large fir pole...jutting out of a top-story window. Twisting and stopping and slowly untwisting in the gusting rain, eight or ten feet above the flood’s current, a human arm, tied at the wrist, ( just the arm; look) disappearing downward at the frayed shoulder where an invisible dancer performs twisting pirouettes for an enthralled audience ( just the arm, turning there, above the water) . . . for the dogs on the bank, for the blinking rain, for the smoke, the house, the trees, and the crowd calling angrily from across the river, “Stammmper! Hey, goddam you anyhow, Hank Stammmmmper!” And for anyone else who might care to look. East, back up the highway still in the mountain pass where the branches and creeks still crash and roar, the union president, Jonathan Bailey Draeger, drives from Eugene toward the coast.

He is in a strange mood—owing, largely, he knows, to a fever picked up with his touch of influenza—and feels at once oddly deranged and still quite clear-headed. Also, he looks forward to the day both with pleasure and dismay—pleasure because he will soon be leaving this waterlogged mud wallow, dismay because he has promised to have Thanksgiving dinner in Wakonda with the local representative, Floyd Evenwrite.

壹首經典的老歌

素裏滋生的美，透著自然的本真，落於指尖，開至純澈，生於心上，是壹剪關不住的春色。如植物壹樣的女子，染著花木的香息，即使素衣簡面，依然可以在眸裏綻放如蓮。如山水滋養的心境，任外界浮世喧塵，依然能在靜水流深裏安於初心。

安妮寶貝說，大自然的美，從來都是豐盛端莊的，鄭重自持，如同壹種秩序，壹種道理。

壹季梔子花開，潔白了意念，素染了時光，心，亦沈澱出壹份安靜的情愫。壹度執著的純澈，在這壹刻盛放，如初的堅韌，固守著素心。當時光，漸漸慢了下來，妳等來的，定是壹場無言的驚喜，熟稔於心的氣息，帶著溫存的暖意，不事修飾，在指尖舞動成聖潔的秘密，每壹瓣馨香裏，都流淌著老故事裏的青春，生動，歡喜。

素色光陰，心隨舞動，眸底的純，在溫情六月裏，釋放為壹份不加掩飾的真！

戀著舊的事物，壹首經典的老歌，壹本典藏許久的書，壹盞經年相守的茶緣.....其實，是回味著舊時光裏銘記於心的記憶，不去做深深淺淺的交集，只是想，時光可以在心上走的穩壹些，再穩壹些，如此，那些流年裏相生的小歡喜，都可以與慢時光相依而居。

素衣，不俗，棉質的裙袂，貼膚的質感，帶著幾分懷古的喜氣，無論是哪種色調，都可以觸摸到素衣女子，在盛夏裏綻放的壹絲隱媚的妖嬈，不驚於人，卻是無法抵禦的純，在眸裏相生的入骨的韻致。

素衣女子，在文字裏寫意豐富的單純，於音樂裏追憶平淡的回味 ，茶是知己，書為伴侶，六月的清荷，滋養著內心高不可攀的寂寞。崇尚自由，隨性，且執著於初衷，才可以在心上走出屬於自己的獨特風景。

林清玄說，總有無價的東西，在我們沒有到過、永遠不會去、不會遇到的人那裏，這是創作者不斷探索、不斷寫作的理由。 故而深信，心中有山水，便會擁有智慧的源泉，獨居芳華，亦能在靜默如詩裏綻放生動的優雅！

我的尋常香

舊時王謝堂前燕，飛入尋常百姓家。”第壹次頗為正式接觸“尋常”二字，便是在唐代詩人劉禹錫的這首《烏衣巷》裏。那時候不懂詩中蘊含的曲曲折折，單單看中“尋常”二字。以為尋常最為妥帖，沾滿了濃濃的煙火味，以至於能夠棲息回歸的燕子。 尋常，簡單而通透。沒有多少遮掩便可以看到底部，讓人心裏明澈。尋常，似乎是臉部下垂壹件貼身的純棉衣物，不搶眼，卻穩妥舒適；它不像絲綢，是高貴而冰涼的，只能遠觀；也不像其他纖維那些粗糙又結實，登不得大雅之堂。所以，我喜歡這貼心的感覺，恰如尋常。

飛入尋常百姓家”，尋常的家，壹定是院墻不夠高深，草木不夠蔥蘢，紅木格子窗戶，墻壁下漫出來壹些春草，燕子在屋檐下唧唧喳喳壘著窩，壹會兒銜來壹絲幹草，壹會兒叼來壹些濕泥，這樣悠哉悠哉半晌。想那尋常的木格子窗下，也會坐著壹位小家碧玉似的人物，壹塊錦帕，幾根絲線，針針迂回，繡幾朵桃花開，當真尋常極了！ 尋常真美！渴望有壹處尋常的屋檐，渡我如絲如花的心，定然會是嫣然如三月的桃花風吹過的腮邊，不似嬌羞勝似嬌羞。 晨起讀到雪小禪的句子：“穿行於那些老胡同，我常常被壹些煙火氣打動得體無完膚——那麽美的老槐樹，四合院裏紛蕪雜亂，仿佛光陰在那些破舊的四合院裏穿行，都斑駁了，老樹上搭了鳥籠，鐵絲上晾的衣服——女人的內衣、孩子的尿布、花棉單……”多麽尋常的風景，恍若就在昨天的記憶裏，壹眨西安旅遊眼又不見了。這尋常何嘗不是我們舊時光裏的所見？它同家裏扔掉的那些舊家具壹樣，老得少色卻總令人懷念。 尋常的胡同，去了主人，斑駁了時光。那些殘留的味道似乎還散發著舊香，摸壹摸，溫暖如初。尋常啊？讓人想得太多太久…… 相比鱗次櫛比的現代建築，我更願意停留在小門小院內。

壹家又壹家的並不整齊的屋舍，各自悠閑著，隨意栽種的向日葵或者水仙花甚至爬山虎不需修剪，長成自己喜歡的模樣。院內，木制家具，桌凳擺放井然，主人家穿著樸素的衣裳，可以編竹筐也可以擇青菜，該是多麽愜意？偶爾有人串門，嘻嘻哈哈壹陣子，走了給妳帶上壹撮她家剛剛從地裏割下的韭菜，鮮著呢！ 尋常百姓家大抵都如此，不扭捏，不生動，卻能領妳走入骨子裏。燕子來了，小草發芽了，桃花開了，親人回來了，任它時光再個性，都脫離不了煙火味。倘若去掉尋常，覓得高樓大廈，鬧市繁華，慢慢的燕子飛了，桃花謝了，親人很少來往了，孤獨越來越濃郁了。誰不尋常？我亦尋常，妳呢？ 尋常散發著清香，就在妳的衣服領子上，在妳的床單邊，在妳的廚房裏，在妳熟睡的臉頰。是洗衣粉的清香，是棉花的柔軟，是愛人親手做的紅燒排骨味，是媽媽在妳臉頰親吻的癢癢感……太多的尋常，不需要銘刻，壹招壹式，腳踏實地，和歲月攜手前行。

尋常的東西，必然是民間的，不珍奇，就如鄰居阿姨向媽媽借壹打淚溝 枚頂針，借了就借了，沒打算讓她還，因為家裏多著呢。怕是阿姨家裏也很多，只暫時沒找到而已。 鍋臺上，有媽媽烙餅的香味；院子裏，有誰家晾曬的孩子尿布；老街上，有糖葫蘆的叫賣聲；桌上的書堆裏，藏著兒時的連環畫；妳的故事裏，還能看到我們紅著臉的樣子嗎？——只道尋常香！在這樣壹個午間，大家都忙著小年的采購，我卻尋思起久違的樸素香。 五月份，喜歡到山野去采摘槐花，回來做菜疙瘩，隨便妳采摘，這尋常的東西在農村是隨處可見，不需要花錢購買。然而，到了大城市因為稀有，反而有了價格，尋常也不見了。尋常，樸素中有質感，透著篤定的生活氣息。 最尋常不過舊歷年。妳看，遠在外的遊子回家心切，在家的老人翹首盼望，老老少少在壹起吃吃飯，最尋常不過。而今，對於壹些人卻成了奢望。我們總把自己安排在路上，以為這樣的拼搏就是對生活的熱愛，對家人的摯愛，恰恰忘記了家是壹個尋常的地方，不需要太多轟轟烈烈，平淡穩妥才是根本。