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It’s Past Time to Start Paying Attention (opens the original)
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“These are the days that try men’s’ souls”, 1776, Common Sense, Thomas Payne. Indeed, history doesn’t repeat itself but it surely rhymes. There hasn’t been an election in 250 years where the theme underlying specific races has been so clearly whether or not we the people will throw off the tightening bonds of tyranny or not. Changing majorities in one or possibly two houses of the legislature will be the public exercising its civic obligation to be an active agent in our democratic republic and
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Deeper and widerFunny; I’m sitting on the deck on a summer day reminiscent of summers past before hot became oppressively so. It’s overcast, not unusual in this part of the country, with temperatures forecast for no higher than 74 degrees. I know, it’s not nice to boast, when the rest of the country huddles in front of their air conditioners escaping the sweltering heat. We’ll get ours next week; 3 days forecast for greater than 90 degrees. Lest you think that’s “nothing”, relative to what one i
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I call it a purge. It’s a task before me, an obligation of sorts, something I am doing more or less willingly in gratitude to my mom, who has occupied a larger place than usual in my consciousness recently. Some things about a relationship simply “are”. They don’t change significantly with time. From my earliest memory my mom has been one of the most significant influences in my life. Thanks be to God, she ranks just slightly lower than the angels in my pantheon of heroes. There was never an evi
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