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Why Can’t We Behave?

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. English children’s book writer and illustrator, Beatrix Potter, was born on this day in 1866 (died 1943) We are on day 136 of 15 days to slow the spread. Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone just …

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Stop the World, I Want to Get Off

“In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven’t are winnowed out.” Ashley Wilkes, in Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell I told some friends yesterday that, while the thought of living off …

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