Ah, okay, I’ve gone back to good old ‘Downtown Java’ theme

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• How about we all try getting by with less ‘stuff’ in our lives?:

  OK, so this is my little “sermonette” (or just a rant?) for today: Maybe our nation and our world would be in better shape all around if we just all tried to get through life with less “stuff,” i.e., material possessions in general and luxury items specifically.

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• Heat spell makes me fantasize about travel plans from long ago:

  I’m sitting in the middle of a nasty stretch of hot, humid summer here in the Missouri Ozarks wishing I were someplace cooler. This early summer heat spell, I confess, is turning my fantasies back to some plans I had years ago. Actually, I’m on a “dual track” fantasy here, neither of which is likely to come true, but both of which look good today.

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• Older I get, more I enjoy my sense of humor about politics, religion:

  I find that the older I get, the more I appreciate having an active sense of humor — particularly when it comes to the Big Duo of cultural discussion here in America — religion and politics.

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• Thinking I am brontophobic — no, it has nothing to do with literature:

  I think I’ve found a label for one of the problems I’ve developed in recent years: brontophobia, a fear of lighting and thunderstorms. It’s also called astraphobia, keraunophobia, or tonitrophobia.

  And the headline on this article is my lame attempt at humor, playing of the name of the Greek god of thunder (Bronte) off of the Bronte sisters, a couple of wonderful English writers. I love a good pun. Although most of the puns I make are admittedly questionable.

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