The late Amy Krouse Rosenthal, in her Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life says the following in her entry for “Completion”: I eat quickly, purposefully, and almost always finish everything on my plate. I finish the meal so I can get to dessert. I finish dessert so I can get up from the table…I find deleting e-mails or messages on my answering machine quite gratifying. I have not experienced the full pleasure of an act or task until I’ve crossed it off my list.” And onward she proceeds, with more and more examples of how the satisfaction of completion equals or exceeds the joy of doing. Of all of the entries in Amy’s