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Perhaps the greatest miracle of the Gadarean maniac is that Jesus told him to go home to his friends. He still had friends.

“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.” ~ Peter Drucker “Profit is a consequence, not the purpose.” ~ Simon Sinek

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.” William Faulkner

The Oxford comma (also known as the ‘serial comma’) is the comma that separates the second to last item in a list from a final item that is introduced by ‘and’ or ‘or.’ It is optional...but be aware that not using the serial comma can result in some ambiguity.

The starkest evidence of the decline of literacy is people's increasing inability to comprehend hypotheticals and analogies

The whole strife and labour and agony of the Son with every man, is to get him to die as he died. All preaching that aims not at this, is a building with wood and hay and stubble.

“The impersonal power structures in the world are, though independent of any one person's will and experience, nevertheless dependent for their force upon the general readiness of normal people to do evil.” Dallas Willard

“Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.” Edmund Burke

This is something I would support.

Jeff Brouws

“If this projected journey is to be successful, it must be made alone.” “There are times that one must be forced to be alone to discover what it means.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

There is a moment at this time of year when the word ‘apricity’ really comes into view. For those who don’t know it, it was recorded only once, in 1623, before slipping out of view. Apricity is the warmth of the sun on a chilly day.

. a perfect skipping stone— the stillness broken by two geese .

Chris Malchow

I aspire to be a discriminating Luddite one day. "I'm a proud Luddite." open.substack.com/pub/thesavagec…

"What friends I have, what days I treasure most, what places that I think about and smile . . . they are because shotguns are. Without them I would have been empty. They have made my life full." "Our greatest trophies are not things, but times." Gene Hill

Waffle House swept away by Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi, MS. Photo taken April 12, 2006 by Carol Highsmith: