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2021/01/17

Why can’t things stay the same?

I’d say no one likes change but that really isn’t true. Just about no one likes change but there are some people who actually do, I’m not one of them. There are people who might be surprised at this but I am actually a “small ‘c’” conservative, a very, very, very small “c” conservative. What […]

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2020/02/23

Let’s talk mountains and mountaintops

 Mountaintop experiences . . . everyone has had them. Some people have even had them on the top of physical mountains. I’m not one of those people. I have never been on top of a mountain, I’ve barely been on the top of a hill. But I have had “mountaintop” experiences. “Mountaintop experiences” are the […]

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2018/01/14

Change happens

 I don’t like change. I don’t know too many people who do but I especially hate it. It could come from moving a lot when I was a kid. It come from an historical awareness that makes me suspicious of any change fulfilling its promise. It is all too possible I’m simply stodgy and lazy […]

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