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Language Liberalism Freethought Birds

Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.

Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.

The church says Earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence in a shadow than the church.

If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.

Monday, September 03, 2018

Happy Birthday, Mother

Here is a picture of my mother, age 2, when they were living in Akron, Ohio - 1924. I don't think she wanted her picture taken.

And then a picture of her atop Monte Solaro on Capri, on the big European trip they took in the early 1980s (I don't remember if it was 1981 or 80). Below that, one of the last pictures of her before her strokes. It's on her birthday, 2001.

I do miss her, still.

2 comments:

Mark P8:39 AM, September 04, 2018
If I knew your mother had lived in Akron I had forgotten. My mother moved to Akron from South Georgia with her sister and mother around 1925. She lived there until after WWII when she and my father and brother moved back to my fathet’s home town in Georgia.
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The Ridger, FCD10:14 AM, September 04, 2018
They lived there about the same time, then. But my mother's family moved to Texas, and then South Carolina.
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