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Weather: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 93. Heat index values as high as 112. West wind 5 to 7 mph. Monday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 76. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
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Today at a Glance:
The Bunnell City Commission meets at 7 p.m. at City Hall on Commerce Parkway. To access meeting agendas, materials and minutes, go here.
Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here.
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Diary: Not that I’m particularly interested in prolonging what has been a couple of weeks that could have sent even an undertaker six feet under, but today is my dear mother Monique’s 88th birthday, or would have been, had she not first had her brain hijacked by dementia then, more mercifully at that point, her body claimed by the 85 percent of the universe made up of dark matter, back on Nov. 17, 2013, here in Palm Coast, here in my house, which was of course also hers. “Life is short, my dear cousin,” it is the consolation of the miserable and the grief of the happy, and everything will come to the same end, she was a latter-day Madame de de Sévigné wrote her cousin Bussy Rabutin in 1685, “it is the consolation of the miserable and the grief of the happy, and everything will come to the same end.” Reading it in the original French doesn’t soften the blow, but it makes it sound as if my mother, who would have happily spent every other Sunday afternoon with Mme de Sévigné, were just as resigned to a reality that placed her in that second group, that of the grief of those who have lived a mostly happy life despite war, a husband’s early death, a second husband’s ill-timed decline into diabetes and neuropathy, and those final years in Palm Coast, of all places: “La vie est courte, mon cher cousin; c’est la consolation des misérables et la douleur des gens heureux, et tout viendra au même but.”
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“When dying at 100, perhaps one feels nothing more than the fear that seized us at 6 when, in the evening, our mother came to turn off the light.” (“Quand on meurt à cent ans, on n’éprouve peut-être rien de plus que la peur qui, à six ans, nous saisissait lorsque, le soir, notre mère venait éteindre la lumière.”)
–From Kamel Daoud’s Meursault Investigation (2013).
Pogo says
As stated
https://www.google.com/search?q=Sic+itur+ad+astra
“…This was not Judgement Day, only morning. Morning, excellent and fair.”
— William Styron, Sophie’s Choice
Laurel says
“Commies” is the biggest, hardest, most dangerous word to dream up from the desperate.
“McCarthyism refers to the political practice in the United States during the late 1940s and 1950s, characterized by the aggressive investigation and accusation of individuals suspected of communist affiliations, primarily led by Senator Joseph McCarthy. This period, often associated with the Red Scare, resulted in widespread fear, job losses, and the persecution of many innocent people based on unsubstantiated claims of disloyalty.”
– Search Assist, Wikipedia, Middle Tennessee State University
The really sad thing is that our very own representatives in government are more than willing to do this over again for their own personal gain.
Our freedom allows people to think differently, and not necessarily smartly. The KKK are allowed to parade in the street. The tiki boys are allowed to parade while chanting “The Jews will not replace us.” As foul as this may seem, it’s still freedom. To pick one type of thought, and call it “freedom” is not freedom. We will never become communists. We will never become socialists. I’m hoping we will never become fascists. But, we will always be exposed to these tribes, and will come out as a more perfect union if we keep guard of our Constitution and our real freedoms.