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Love the cats, Chris and Carl.
Now it really is the holiday season: just finished my last shift ever in elderly care after more than 18 years. I feel so happy and alive again.
Hope you're all enjoying youreslves as much as I am.
Dear friends of Atheist Nexus, I hope each and every one of you have lots of rest, renewal, and relaxation during this darkest time of the year. In a day or two, our days will begin to get longer, and we can wipe away the dumps with the sweep of a broom and hands in the soil or whatever revs your energy.
According to my weather report, at 10:28 Newport time, our temperature is 28, Vancouver is 39, Philadelphia and Bensalem are 63, Chicago is 43, and Cleveland is 48 degrees F.
Whether with family, friends, strangers, or alone, may your time be filled with delicious food, beautiful sounds, pleasing smells, inspiring sights, and happy thoughts.
One year at this season I realized my children would be going with their friends, and I knew I would have to learn how to celebrate without them. So, I told them I wanted to conduct an experiment to see if I could enjoy my time with them growing up and away. They each had friends and made plans to spend the holidays with them.
I planned my meals, picked out my favorite music, selected a book to read and settled in for a pleasant time alone. I had a very nice time, the kids did too, and we were all happy.
Whatever your plans may be tomorrow, I hope the day goes well for you. I'll be with my family having good food and once a year baked treats during the day and then with my extended family of aunts, uncles and cousins in the evening for more indulgence. We all get along well, so it should be pleasant.
The ground is dry and not a flake of snow is anywhere in the forecast, so her in Chicago we will just have to pretend.
Sierra Nevada Snowpack at 500-Year Low
In 2015, researchers reported that snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California was at its lowest ever recorded level. But the official record only went back about 80 years.
TROUET: “We’ve been working with tree-ring data from California and we realized that we can reconstruct that snowpack number back to the early 1500s.”
I've been marveling at the Phila green grass, until I just saw a Canadian news broadcast showing green grass in Ottawa now.
Daniel, I just read about your endoscopy results (cancer group), and that's great news! Really great news! Hope you're feeling good. Retirement is just around the corner!
Randy, I haven't sent cards for at least thirty years, probably more. My life was so hectic, trying to get the kids through puberty, keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table, I decided to cut out any and all stress-makers. Sending cards was one. We kept the big feasts and it was about that time that I blasted anything religious out of my life. It was about the time I wrote "Toward a Theory of Family Violence: its Antecedents, Treatment, and Prevention" and "A Splendid Heresy: the Role of Religion in Maintaining and Perpetuating Family Violence".
Ian, your part of the world seems to have come out from under the Ice Age at about the time as ours. Any traces of earlier civilizations were mostly swept away with the ice and then the floods.
Ancient girl’s skeleton changes scientist’s mind on human migration
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