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What are the most important things needed to live a good life? In no particular order,: companionship, whether it’s a lover or a friend or a cat or a cactus; quality, find the good whether you are; Art, because life needs wonder.
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Daily writing promptWho do you spend the most time with? View all responses Moving outward, Pepsi, the kitten, and then Mario, the cat. The Boys and my partner. Other than that, I'm mostly alone, which is nice. It's harder to frustrate other's expectations of
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June 9, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson
Some of Trump’s supporters are calling for violence. After Louisiana representative Clay Higgins appeared to be egging on militias to oppose Trump’s Tuesday arraignment, Democratic senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) issued a joint statement calling for “supporters and critics alike
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New Condo
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The Iotas and The Dots
There is no human being on earth capable of declaring with certitude who he is. No one knows what he has come into this world to do, what his acts correspond to, his sentiments, his ideas, or what his real name is, his enduring Name in the register of Light…
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June 7, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson
Snyder warned journalists not to “bothsides” the story by offering equal time to both sides. “What Russian spokespersons have said has almost always been untrue, whereas what Ukrainian spokespersons have said has largely been reliable. The juxtaposition suggests a false equality,” he wrote. “The story doesn’t start at the
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Drawing the Constellations
So I’m young, I think sixth grade, I’m not sure why, but that’s what feels right. Seventh grade feels too late and fifth feels too early. I was interested in space and astronomy. Mom had gotten me all sorts of books and magazines. I remember I wanted
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Daily writing promptDo you remember your favorite book from childhood? View all responses I read a lot of books as a child, but I do remember coming back to Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day? and his other stuff. I remember being fascinated with systems, like
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The Hidden Meaning of the Golden Arches
Cheskin worked with McDonald’s at the time it was about to abandon arches as architectural elements of its outlets. He advised that the memory of the arches be kept in the form of the M in “McDonald’s.” His case was based, he said, on research that showed that
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Respec in Diablo IV
I’m impressed with how easy it is to respec (it’s short for “re-specialize”, right?) in Diablo IV. I started out as a lightning mage, but found myself being a glass cannon. I looted a nice legendary staff, but it was centered around frost. For just a bit of
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Higher education fled this American small town. It left a ghost town.
which also has become the state’s largest healthcare provider and employer Wait. In West Virginia, a state-run university is the largest health-care provider and employer. The state government has to be a close second. And then local and county governments. How many people in supposedly anti-socialist West Virginia are
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Farming Simulator
The version of Farming Simulator that I have looks like it’s my best option, though it feels a little limited. And there’s no controller support. Meanwhile, I keep getting bored at the wheel in the main game on the Xbox. Why couldn’t they make the gameplay loop