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We got a couple of inches of rain out of that crrrrrazy storm that ran over this way and then mostly up the coast.

But the way the patterns are setting up looks like we can use some “hep” contending with the unusual weather and events that has been throwing stuff at us since late Spring. Maybe we better get a recount and use ‘em all up before they have another big election season. Whaddayathink?

Well – wooly worms… bears and rattlesnakes getting’ in their dens early… battening down the hatches so to speak… it just “feels” like we *could* have a big winter. Of course the best insurance would be for me to predict a White Christmas and local lakes freezing over to the point of skating on them again… I remember that – and maybe some of you do too. (J) I know my brother does because I was not diligent enough one winter to keep him from falling in. But I got him home OK. That’s what counts… AND I have apologized *several* times… I just didn’t do a good job of it back then. I was about 11 and he was probably six or seven. I shouldda been a better BIG brother.

We all probably have things we look back on and think “I shouldda…”

Well I shouldda gotten a better start on getting a nap this afternoon… slept right through the 5:15 airing… and missed the one in the morning… Did it go on? Nah… I know it DID. But there weren’t enough hours in yesterday to get things done I need/want to do… so better get with it this evening.

See you all next Monday if not before. Have a good weekend.

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack & Barbara (who is getting ready for Thanksgiving!

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Just a Minute: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, best known for his writings from a Russian Gulag, said: “Hastness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.” So, Wall Street Occupiers, you must be the ones the Baltimore Sun’s Editor H.L. Mencken described as “The Great Unwashed.”

Solzhenitsyn won a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, but was expelled from the Soviet Union in ‘74 -- lived in Vermont – returning to Russia in ‘94 when the Soviet Union collapsed.

Abandoning the ideology of his youth, he came to believe the struggle between good and evil is not resolved among parties but is waged within the individual human heart. During the Cold War years, this Tolstoian search for Christian morality was considered radical in the Soviet Union. He was hospitalized with high blood pressure and said: "For me faith is the foundation and support of one’s life." That was repeated in a Der Spiegel interview before he died in Moscow age 89.