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We are four days into Great Lent 2026. Or, a tenth of the way through the 40 days. The 40 official days of Lent take us to the Friday before Lazarus Saturday - the week before Easter! Passion Week, which is a strict fast, is not counted in the 40 days. Last night, my daughters and I bunkered down on the couch in the media room. That's right, the study I imagined as a room of my own was rebranded The Media Ro om when I folded up the spare bed and resurrected the big screen desktop computer. I also did a hard declutter of the space. Of course, then the kids flooded in, threw some blankets on the futon, dragged in a side table to bring the large screen computer closer to the couch, and thus the media room was born. Fair enough, we don't have a TV. But I digress. We sank into the futon / couch in this newly minted room as night fell and late summer mists swirled through the valleys here, bringing relief to the parched earth. My eldest requested to watch "DPS" - Dead Poe...
