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https://johnpavlovitz.com/2018/06/19/if-your-church-is-silent-this-week-you-should-leave-it/

At least, pulling up the covers about 7:30 PM and shortly asleep, to wake at one-something is not aggravating, but what to do with Time so early and awake alone. While the first cup of black brews, a quick visit to the porch rail to admire bright planets in their plane arcing from east to west - - quick because of the hot wall of Florida Gulf Coast humidity that hits upon sliding the door open. Out, look, dart back inside. Sometimes an octogenarian can actually dart.  

To the cozy - - cozy involves a shoulder wrap and a lap blanket because, while it's hot and humid outside, this is the cold spot in 7H - - little room that, wasted as a seldom-used guest bedroom, is now converted to my den. Den, study, and coffee with a slice of moist, heavy dark chocolate cake to end the last night of Spring 2018. Opening laptop to email, Ireland travelogue.

Trying to avoid horrifying news of America's cruelty, for reasons of political gain, to terrified children, making me deeply, deeply ashamed to be American, and bringing to my mind both photographs of My Lai that appeared in Life magazine at the Time, and a 1940s documentary with a scene of a toddler pushed away by a German guard, the baby trying to run back to her mother, who is in a row of Jewish women lined up to be shot and fall into a trench. And realizing that we are equally low - - Amerika 2018: It Can't Happen Here, undesirable children sorted out and concentrated. Someone obscenely said that it's like summer camp. The camp word is concentrated. Nothing in life matters but all the children of the world. The United Methodist Church has spoken out against one of their own who is deeply involved in this evil against Brown Faces, and so should ours as status confessionis: Examine yourself first: who favors or is okay with this government policy dare not come to the Altar lest you blaspheme the Body and Blood.

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My oldest child, who is to turn sixty next Monday, June 25th, checks out of her rehab facility on Friday, being discharged to home and progressing beautifully.

In our family, reports from Shepherd Center, Atlanta that Joseph is doing well physically as he begins his rehab, a ways to go cognitively his mother says. Joyfully, we'll take what we have, a wonderful young man. A photo Joy posted on FB yesterday. Nothing matters more to us than this boy's life and his return to wellbeing 

Finally, trying to get my life back to the normal that's gone, a car that's for sale, a 1937 Ford tudor sedan

and contrast with its major competition, a 1937 Chevrolet. Ford had the styling and engineering edge, with a flathead V8 against Chevy's OHV straight six. 

  Not to mention the1937 Plymouth, another dowdy offering against the sleek Ford