Tag: freedom
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What Is Worth Remembering?
As a child, the day heralded the approach of summer and the end of school. It was a day where we had neighborhood picnics and went to a parade where I didn’t pay much attention to who was marching but who was throwing candy. We also visited the cemetery, which felt ghastly as a child.…
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Trapped In The Myth Of Control
With warmer weather, we buy more fruit for the kids; it sits in baskets so they can grab and go. Unless they’re weary of that produce. The fruit becomes an open invitation for fruit flies to feast. They appear out of nowhere; their sole purpose is to irritate everyone in the house. I’ve been quite…
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How Would You Answer The Question?
“I can’t claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don’t know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: Does that flag still wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?” …
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Just Go To Your Corners
They bicker constantly, and their voices can be heard throughout the house. It would be understandable if I was speaking of the kids. Or even adults. Being together constantly wears on everybody’s niceness after a while. I’m talking about the dogs. Aspen, the three-year-old male Lab, and Estes, the year-old female Australian shepherd. Their annoyance…
