maneuver of my son’s fifth grade teacher, dawn fox, who sent the kids home to count the light bulbs in their houses. i am a lighting design fanatic and counting our bulbs took forever. i don’t know the number anymore, but i was stunned to find out that our 11,000--squarefoot house in mclean had more light bulbs than all the other 17 kids’ households combined. in six weeks’ time, i was walking through the stick frame of what would be my beautiful new net--zero eco--pad. my kids and i love this house. it’s great design, comfortable, funky, plenty big and it’s got a seriously low carbon footprint, which treads lightly on my subconscious. my 26 ilanga elalikhethiwe lafika abantu bakankulunkulu sebevele belindile. leziphathamandla zephesiya zasezibasekela ngoba zasezizwile ukuthi kwasekulendunankulu entsha eyayingumjuda okuthiwa ngumodekhayi. ujehova wabancedisa abantu bakhe bazitshaya bazibhuqa izitha zabo. akuthandabuzwa ukuthi wabavikela ezitheni lezi ezazifuna ukubaqeda, baziqothula zaphela du. *—esta. 9:1--6.