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May your future be pepperoni-free, Sir. Best wishes from Oregon.

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Bravo, GK! What a great way to start the day into a bright & warm weekend here in nyc. Dig it! Ah, Docks. Many a good supper & martini there.

And this:

pity this busy monster, manunkind,

not. Progress is a comfortable disease:

your victim (death and life safely beyond)

plays with the bigness of his littleness

--- electrons deify one razorblade

into a mountainrange; lenses extend

unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish

returns on its unself.

A world of made

is not a world of born --- pity poor flesh

and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this

fine specimen of hypermagical

ultraomnipotence. We doctors know

a hopeless case if --- listen: there's a hell

of a good universe next door; let's go

E. E. Cummings

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I, too, have many worthy books unread, and felt the same futility, perhaps yourself about reading them -- until I discovered (late) Audible. Now someone reads to me better than I could read, and faster. Think you can't make it through The Idiot, and Robert Caro? You can!

Alan

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That was a nice one. Thanks!

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There are lines here that may and should make my sermon in the coming weeks. Thank you!

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Many, many years ago when listening to PHC, I heard yourself say that (and I am paraphrasing here) in Lake Wobegon "the people have all realized that they are not going to be famous, or President, or wealthy, or Miss America, or etc. And that once people realize this, then they can just get on with living life."

At the time, I though that was a very good way to look at life. And I still think that it is a good way to look at life.

I have spent most of my life going to church but I think that the best explanation of the reason the universe and world are the way that they are is Darwin's theory of evolution. The Big Bang happened about five billion years ago and life got started and there were five great extinctions and here we are. I really cannot conceive of how long a million or billion years are.

This could be interpreted to mean that we are all very insignificant which we are. But it is also a source of great wonder. Look at the wonder and beauty of life. There have been five great mass extinctions (the last one got the dinosaurs) but each time there was an extinction everything was not killed. And the life that remained came back.

Like the people in Lake Wobegon, I am not going to be famous or well known. And that is good because I have no ideas on how to save the world or to save humanity and so forth. I am glad that nobody is expecting me to save anything.

But that leaves me free to live life as I see fit and maybe be of help to friends and family.

People say that fear of God is the reason that people are mostly good. That could be true but I think that if you treat other people good and try to live the "Golden Rule" then you will have a happier life. You will feel good about yourself.

Life is what you make it. What you look for is mostly what you find.

Best wishes Garrison and best wishes to one and all.

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Interesting...I too have problems with fine type due to "immaculate contraption", but heard that properly defined via an audio source as " perpetual commotion", which each new stellar discovery brings us closer to...oops, make that brings us to closer, grandma being very important. DJ

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Great way to start my day. Blessings from the daughter of a North Dakota mother born in 1927. She too taught us to work hard and endure. Our father taught us to laugh. Both tremendous people! Thank you!

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Black holes could be a portal to other universes.

Who knows?

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Black holes could be a portal to other universes.

Who knows?

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Yeah spam, Ick!

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The cosmos is a great source of wonder. Read up on black holes colliding and creating gravity waves.

Even better are the humans down here that figured out how to measure that.

Wonderful stuff, life.

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You light up so many lives! Thank you!

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Laughing out loud, holding my sides…while feeling sad about your eyes…but immaculate degeneration??? Still chuckling. Thank you for lightening and enlightening our mornings here in strange-weather Minnesota.

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WOW! Great read!

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As always; thank you! BTW have I used the semi-colon appropriately there?

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