This is the text of an e-mail message I received, because I am a part of the distribution list for the website for the International Federation of Competitive Eating
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"We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort -- not in the original and heroic sense of uplifting, inspiring, strengthening, but in the more modern and baser sense of soothing sorrow, dulling pain, and drying tears -- the comfort of the cushion, not the comfort of the Cross." ... G. A. Studdert Kennedy
I am putting some POSTS (that word is fun to yell really loud) in the ground to hang a hammock in my back yard. I am also going to hang out with Marc's kids this weekend. That will be fun.
1) Reconstruction of my backyard has begun ... grass is ordered to fill in my big dirt pile where dogs have destroyed everything in their path. Many fun stones and flowers etc. will be following
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