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Let It Be Me
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Let It Be Me

By Ray LaMontagne

January 31, 2021

Editor’s note:  Continuing with our February theme of “asking for help”.  Favorite lyric: “That's when you need someone Someone that you, you can call When all your faith is gone...
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Dilbert by Scott Adams

By Tim McCarthy

December 31, 2020

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Give Me One Reason
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Give Me One Reason

By Tracy Chapman featuring Eric Clapton

December 31, 2020

Editor’s note: I’ve always been fond of native Clevelander, Tracy Chapman but never knew she performed her most famous song with Eric Clapton once. It’s an upbeat, toe-tapping piece made...
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Inclusion
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Inclusion

By Tim McCarthy

November 29, 2020

I worked for fourteen hours at the polls on November 3 rd . It was an unforgettable experience. Our home is just off a state park in a little resort...
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Squeeze Me
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Squeeze Me

By Carl Hiaasen

November 29, 2020

Buy Book Editor’s Note:   Warning: If you’ve not read his books, be forewarned that Hiaasen is a bit twisted.  But if you’re neither politically ardent nor easily offended, this...
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Midnight Reassurances
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Midnight Reassurances

By Tim McCarthy

November 29, 2020

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On Generosity by Walter Brueggemann
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On Generosity by Walter Brueggemann

By Tim McCarthy

October 31, 2020

Editor’s note: My dear friend and exemplar, Rich Clark, sent me this after reading last month’s blog about zero-sum people. On Generosity On our own, we conclude: there is not...
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November Laugh
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November Laugh

By Tim McCarthy

October 31, 2020

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Major Lazer
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Major Lazer

By Major Lazer featuring Marcus Mumford

October 31, 2020

Song of the month: “Lay your head on me”, by Major Lazer featuring Marcus Mumford   Editors note: M y daughter and I spent a Saturday evening recently by a...
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Kathleen Williams
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Kathleen Williams

September 29, 2020

Editors Note: Perhaps the only moderate ad we will see this season so it earned my monthly interest award. Note it is Montana so this is not a partisan statement.
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Best Laid Plans
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Best Laid Plans

By Tim McCarthy

September 29, 2020

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Future in the Distance
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Future in the Distance

By Carrie Chapman Catt

September 29, 2020

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves. -- Carrie Chapman Catt
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Nothing but Deterioration
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Nothing but Deterioration

By JB Macaulay, written in 1830 as comment to widespread news that “America will never be the same”.  Thanks to Randy Martin

August 30, 2020

“We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point – that we have seen our best days.  But so said...
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Feeding My Head AND My Body

By Tim McCarthy

August 30, 2020

Barbara Cartland said, “You become what you think. You are what you eat”. I heard a similar quote in the 1970s and it has come back to me many times...
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September Laugh

By Tim McCarthy

August 30, 2020

Joke of the Month:  Thanks to an article in Country Living I found this assortment of Dad jokes.  I still consider it a compliment that my kids called me “Clark...
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We’ll Make It Through
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We’ll Make It Through

By Ray LaMontagne

August 30, 2020

Editor’s comment:   Thanks to Mike Utesch for sending this new RL song onto me.  With all that’s going down in all our lives, I love the very thought of...
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The Overstory
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The Overstory

By Richard Powers

August 1, 2020

Editor’s note:  Two reasons to avoid this book, kindly referenced by my friend, Joe Gibson: a. you’re looking for recreational reading (I had to strain to stay on track) or...
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Moonlight Song
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Moonlight Song

By Blaze Foley

June 30, 2020

Editor's Note:  I recently heard this and fell in love with Blaze's honest voice, guitar and melody. I also have a penchant for lullabies. (Kevin McCarthy)  Favorite Lyric: Moonlight bathes...
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July Joke of the Month

By Tim McCarthy

June 30, 2020

This plaque appeared on my dresser one morning.  Not sure who placed it there, but I suspect maybe the girl I’ve been hanging with for 45 years? 
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Our History
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Our History

By Tim McCarthy

June 30, 2020

After reorganizing my paper clip collections during the lockdown, I decided I would finally attack the thousands of files my sisters and I have set aside over the years regarding...
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American Dirt
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American Dirt

By Jeanine Cummins

May 31, 2020

Editor’s comment:   I read too many books this month since we are essentially still in lockdown here.  None were particularly good, I’m sorry to say, and I tried fiction...
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