http://virginiahopes.com Life in the Washington Machine. Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:32:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://virginiahopes.com/2009/09/23/p-s/ http://virginiahopes.com/2009/09/23/p-s/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:35:00 +0000 Virginia Shaffer http://virginiahopes.com/?p=43 Continue reading →]]> I’m sitting in the Administration Hall in a garden in the center of the building, that is completely open like a villa with a bunch of tangerine and gold colored fish in a fountain swimming under the balcony I am perched on. It looks like a celestial body of shooting stars and comets shooting around beneath the water’s surface. Wow!

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