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I don’t have an answer to the gun violence. I have some opinions, but I don’t dare voice them because every opinion I read is followed by a long chain of slap downs and insults and I don’t want to contribute to that toxic mix. I have some ideas too, but ideas aren’t well received nowadays either. Everybody is angry.
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Ever hear something for years and then find out that you’ve been hearing it wrong and then you feel so stupid? The fun examples are misheard song lyircs, such as Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “there’s a bad moon on the rise,” which has been hilariously misheard by some as, “there’s a bathroom on the right.” But I was flat out embarrassed recently when we were talking about taking communion to homebound church members and I discovered that I’ve been hearing the word “intention” all these years when actually it is “intinction.”
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So here we are, recalling the marvel and magic of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon 50 years ago. I don’t know what it means, if anything, to anyone born after that event, but to me it was and still is a huge cosmic event. And yet, the strongest memory I have of those days is driving out across the coastal plains with my grandparents in search of the man in the trailer.
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