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SERMON: Know Who You Are |
In trying to remember exactly what it was like to be a teenager and what some of the toughest struggles were, we remember that we were bombarded with temptation from every angle. There wasn't a day that went by when we weren't tempted to do things which we knew we weren't supposed to do.
Life is full of the lure of the easy, the pleasant, the quick no-work ways but if there is one thing we all learn, often the hard way, is that the easy, the pleasant, the quick always has a price tag. A price tag higher than the easy, the pleasant, the quick gains we thought we had made.
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EDITORIAL: Avoiding Conflict
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It would seem that the most common response to conflict is violence whether or not it is emotional, physical or interpersonal.
In the case of international conflict, war is usually the result. It can be a personal war, against drugs or alcohol or anger as much as it can be rage against a perceived "enemy".
Often the response to war is to make an attempt to go to the opposite extreme.
We try and create the perfect, Utopian society or setting so we can eliminate the gray area that keeps us in a sort of limbo. It is much easier to see black and white, good and evil, light and dark. The problem lies in this desire to eliminate conflict.
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OPINION: Oh, Hail The Celebrity!
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Everyday we are effortlessly confronted by the obsessive celebrity based media.
Our society walks hand in hand with the sparkling escape of living vicariously through magazines and films.
It is nearly impossible to ignore the myriad of programs and articles broadcasting with an air of importance, no less --- what this celebrity or that was seen wearing to the latest premier, their most recent public outburst or the fact that they were caught eating fried lardballs at Fat Harry's Greasy Spoon.
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GOOD NEWS: The Tall Ships
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Everyone's dream is to be young, good looking, and aboard a beautiful modern yacht sailing among the Tall Ships gathered in the harbor. No longer practical, the Tall Ships are too gorgeous to be ignored and many businesses and governments use them as training/publicity vehicles.
And we get to marvel at their magnificence.
A Tall Ship is a large traditionally rigged sailing vessel. Popular modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines and brigs.
This gathering of the Tall Ships took place in one of the world's most beautiful harbors on a clear, beautiful day.
There are tall ships, there are V. I. P. yachts for the rich and powerful and hundreds of smaller craft for Joe and Jane all anxious to be part of the Tall Ships pageant.
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FICTION: Tails of Aspabibia, Part 103
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"Well, that's not fair," Buddha said. "You can't just take things."
"They don't know any other way," Marianna murmured with a bat of her luminous eyes.
"Perhaps they could use some education," Viker said.
"They'd be welcome in our Queen and Kingdom if they'd just get vaccinated," said Red Pearl. "There's plenty of education there."
"A little too much," whispered Shadow into Marianna's soft and pretty ear.
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ADVICE: Dear Angel
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I married a sweet wonderful man thirty years ago when he was twenty-eight and I was twenty-five. Lennie was a hard and conscientious worker for a medium sized national company. Eventually he worked his way into lower management and five years ago was made a department head. Two years ago his entire department was out sourced to China and everyone here was let go including my husband.
If you're doing the math, Lennie is now fifty-eight, unemployed and basically unemployable. No one seems to want older workers.
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