Once you have your job description, take some time to test it against reality. How many purple squirrels are actually out there?

I might wander down to the construction site for a nosy at what they're building.

It is such men and such books as these that are created to help us make our whole land a land of beauty and homefulness.

Their indifference, however, sharpened to hostility in regard to the Chinese, against whom they seemed to nourish a special grudge. Again and again I heard the most artistic, frugal, and facultized race in the world dismissed as a dirty and ungrateful lot who would be all the better for a touch of the big stick or—ennobling thought!—the big gun.