joemallik

I lost my best friend this morning. The woman I've known for almost 30 years and lived with for almost 20
died early this morning. It was probably a blood clot that got into either her heart or lungs. You die quickly when that happens. The reality hasn't really hit me yet...I'm still a bit numb.

In the summer, I move around the house in full "commando" mode. (I'd do it in the backyard, too, but Kathy won't allow it.)
Anyway, a few days ago, Kathy happened to look at me from the right angle and she said, "Oooh, the walking you're doing is working! You've got a bit of a butt!"
I've been doing power walking most everyday this summer....
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I had a nice thing happen to me today...
I walk to, and in, a nearby park for exercise. I was headed down the alley behind my house, and was surprised to find a ten dollar bill on the pavement. It had obviously spent the nite outside in the rain. I picked it up and continued on my way.
I've noticed, over the years, that...
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John Mauldin's Outside the Box
The Tragic Decline of Gibraltar's Spanish Neighbor


By John Mauldin
July 10, 2012

I was on the ground in Spain a few weeks back, and then I ran into this piece in Spiegel
Online about a small, struggling town on the Spanish border with (British) Gibraltar.
This essay resonates in some of the same ways...
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Celebratingand LimitingReligious Freedom
by Dr. Marty Klein

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Bill of Rights, Article I


Thats what the Bill of Rights says:
*...
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Just watched a movie, from 1970, The Ballad of Cable Hogue. Jason Robards, Stella Stevens and David Warner played the main characters. It was aired on the EWSTN channel. If you want to see a bit of nude Stella Stevens (and who wouldn't?), look up this movie. The Robards and Stevens characters were, at one point, actually singing (sort of) a love duet that I...
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I got a compliment last nite, from a stranger. Which makes it even better.
The grocery store I go to is open, 24/7. I like to go late at nite. Big box stores are exhausting to me, and trying to avoid other people during normal hours is doubly so.
So, I go in the doors, and naturally look to my right, briefly, and there, maybe...
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