Now some important philosophical questions on life…….

Why do supermarkets make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front?  Why do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke?  Why do banks leave vault doors open and then chain the pens to the …

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The Strangler Tree at The Moorings, Islamorada

Were you a harmless, nameless tree, just standing there, Motionless and proud, your boughs spread wide, The product of a hundred fruitful summers, Surviving the convulsions of Caribbean hurricanes, Cold fronts and brisk north winds, You might neither notice nor much care about The arrival, perching quietly, of yet another bird. Thousands stop from year …

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Ghostly tracks in New Mexico

(Keeping off the current dire threat to the country and what it stands for….. ………………… Thirteen thousand years ago, a woman made her way across mudflats with a small child whom she sometimes carried in her arms. Nothing of her remains – except her footprints: stretching for almost a mile across the White Sands National …

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