Love is in the air and so is the richly enticing smell of freshly baked bread! Today on this April Fool's Full Moon, I like to think that we've got it all wrong about the fools amongst us. Instead of a foibled failure, the fool is the leaper, the one willing to take risks, the fun one who rises with spontaneity and is happy to relish life to its fullest. And that full moon! Wow! It kept me awake all night last night trying to teach me how the world should be. It told me to pr

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