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This has been the first morning I’ve seen daylight in Orland for a long time. So, after having a good smoke with my Christmas Peterson (thank you, honey), I loaded everyone up in the van and headed to the Saturday swap meet in town. On the way, we stopped by a local orchard and bought [...]

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Mark Butterworth has some interesting http://www.callistergreen.blogspot.com/2004_12_01_callistergreen_archive.html#110446178479603238 comments on “success”: “Michael Medved read extracts from portions of his new book, Right Turns, which didn’t make the cut and were edited out. One section had to do with his success as a teenager at selling encyclopedias. He ended the chapter with a brief homily on the key [...]

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“I keep hoping that this feeling will pass, the constant gnawing that ebbs only for an hour or so after dinner. Other than that brief respite, I feel it constantly — upon rising, after breakfast, mid-morning, after lunch, throughout the afternoon, into the evening, and upon settling down to sleep. I find myself awaking in [...]

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“There are people in Europe who, confounding together the different characteristics of the sexes, would make man and woman into beings not only equal but alike. They would give to both the same functions, impose on both the same duties, and grant to both the same rights; they would mix them in all things–their occupations, [...]

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Much distributist literature is about securing freedom and independence for Catholic families, and rightly so. Rural living is promoted because it is believed to offer a greater degree of economic independence compared to city life. Distributist writers have noted that during periods of strife and economic hardship, the rural populations, being closer to the land [...]

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At one time there was an anti smoking billboard in town that displayed in large, bold red letters the following message: 400,000 SMOKING RELATED DEATHS THIS YEAR in the obvious attempt to persuade people to stop smoking. As I recall, it also showed the face of a child or a young woman. Most of you [...]

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Why Flowers Don’t Have Faces by Amy, age 8 Before Adam ate his apple, the flowers had faces. Before you saw smiles, but now you just see traces. Now to see the smiles you must travel miles. The devil long before had destroyed our smiles. That is why to see them you must travel miles.

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I’ll bet that most of you think an increasing Gross National Product is a good thing for the country. Or maybe you don’t, and you’ve come to realize that GNP stands for Going Nowhere Prettyfast. Anyway, considering how GNP figures are calculated, it is clear that GNP may well be inversely proportional to national quality [...]

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