Serendipity - Seeking Intelligent Life on Earth
Although I lived abroad, I knew I could come home.
I lived in Israel, a nation I love but as controversial as any country on earth. When I arrived there, I was sure I knew something about how things could be fixed. By the time — nine years later — I left, I knew nothing except that should anything in the area get fixed, I wouldn’t be the person doing it.
I left, but it was okay. I was going home. I needed normalcy by then. Nine years in a country that is permanently just this side of war makes everyone nervous. We’d had some great days, right after the Camp David Accords were signed. I was there. I saw the cars — those big black cars from the U.S., Israel, and Egypt fly past me after signing at the King David Hotel. Israel was deliriously happy. Peace!
Pogo – Walt Kelly
They assassinated…
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Views from the Edge 
Thank you. Others see this as an opportunity to make things right. I’m not so sure. It could go either way. But, like you, I hope for the better parts of our nature to win in the end.
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Better parts of our nature are getting pretty bloodied by golf balls and goof balls. I think the baser parts of our nature are about to encounter grounds for indictments and impeachment.
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Utterly depressing, and just as true as it is depressing.
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Marilyn. Carolyn’s moment raises a question. Were you also in our kindergarten class? 😂Three peas in a pod.
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