title: Sunshine Preferred: The Philosophy of an Ordinary Woman
author:  Anne Ellis 
description: Sunshine Preferred sums up the attitude of a remarkable woman whose illness interrupted a busy life as politician and breadwinner for two children.
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  # Anne
  
  
  ### Rebecca Harding Davis
  
  
  
  
  
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  IT was a strange thing, the like of which had never before happened to Anne.
  In her matter-of-fact, orderly life mysterious impressions were rare. She
  tried to account for it afterward by remembering that she had fallen asleep
  out-of-doors. And out-of-doors, where there is the hot sun and the sea and the
  teeming earth and tireless winds, there are perhaps great forces at work, both
  good and evil, mighty creatures of God going to and fro, who do not enter into
  the strong little boxes in which we cage ourselves. One of these, it may be,
  had made her its sport for the time.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Anne when she fell asleep was sitting on a veranda of the house nearest to the
  water. The wet bright sea-air blew about her. She had some red roses in her
  hands, and she crushed them up under her cheek to catch the perfume, thinking
  drowsily that 