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I noticed that one of the quarters I have is dated 1972. It is as old as I am. I wonder where it has been in its lifetime, what many places it has travelled to and from, how many pockets and purses and cash-registers it has been in, how many hands it has touched.

Light from the setting sun was giving things a golden tinge as I got out of my car in a store's parking lot this evening. Then I looked at the sky, and saw a wonderful rainbow appearing - a full semi-circle, from close to the horizon on one side, to behind the store building on the other. There were dark clouds in the sky in that direction. It had been sprinkling while I was driving, but had stopped. There was even a faint 2nd rainbow, too.