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In 1842, Fred Barnett Miller of New Orleans – an employee of the Federal government – was told to relocate “out west” to a little settlement called Rillo.  So Fred made the trip to Rillo and immediately went to the telegraph office. Upon his arrival he paid the telegraph operator to respond to all telegraphs sent to Fred Barnett Miller as though the operator were, in fact, Fred Barnett Miller. His instructions to the telegraph operator were to strongly assure all inquirers – above all – “I’m in Rillo.” Then he returned to New Orleans and the French Quarter. The telegraph operator had never met anyone from New Orleans, so when Fred said, “Tell’em, above all, Ahm’i’rillo,” that’s exactly what the telegraph operator did. When he received his first telegraph intended for Fred Barnett Miller, he told the Feds everything was going “FANTASTIC” and that it was the greatest place he had ever been. And then he signed it precisely as he had been instructed. “Above all, Amarillo!” A few weeks later, wagon trains of happy settlers headed west toward this prairie wonderland discovered by Fred Barnett Miller.  According to Wikipedia, a cousin of Fred’s was responsible for the settling of Greenland.

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“I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don’t want to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a collection of meetings and pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes. I want to eat cold tangerines and sing out loud in the car with the windows open and wear pink shoes and stay up all night laughing and paint my walls the exact color of the sky right now. I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets and throw parties and eat ripe tomatoes and read books so good they make me jump up and down, and I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift.”

- Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

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