The thought I’d like to leave you with
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Closing up social media shop for the holidays, as I usually do, and more than ever this year so I can avoid Star Wars spoilers.

When asked if he was happy once, Mike replied, “Happiness is over-rated. I’d rather be interested.”
Coming from most people, that would sound like a Deep Thought, contrived or trite, but Mike had an ability to say things like that with effortless sincerity, as though he’d had a good long think about it just before you happened to ask.……This idea just keeps coming back to me, nudging me, like a cat getting impatient for attention. It’s the thought I’d like to leave you with. Meet you back here in 2016.