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This blog has now been in operation for three years.  It has over 1400 posts for a total of over 310 thousand words and nearly 500 comments.   The most popular post is "Spiritual Symbols:Butterflies and Dragonflies" which has been read nearly 19,000 times and commented on more than any other.

  I will be in Reno for the next week attending the annual convocation.  As usual, I'll set up some articles to auto-post while I'm away and I may add a few live updates from Reno.



"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started  and to know the place for the first time" ~T. S. Eliot


I trust my inner being to lead me in the right path.



The Yaohnanen tribe of the South Pacific believe Britain's Prince Philip is their ancestral god.

One more rich pet: Gail Posner left $3 million and run of her mansion to her chihuahua.  Her son, who got only one million is contesting.

A 19 year old driver in New York state hit a tree when he became dizzy and passed out while having a hold-your-breath contest with his passengers.

A young man in Montana had a hard time convincing police he was not the guy they were looking for.  Probably because of his name being tattooed on the back of his neck.

Among the many wealthy "farmers" who get subsidies from the U.S. government are billionaires David Rockefeller and Leonard Lauder.  When you're very wealthy, you just have to buy a big chunk of land that could potentially be farmland, then promise not to grow anything on it to qualify.