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The brain is a tricky thing. I, like your wife, was finding all the beauty in the garden and enjoying the idea that life goes on beyond men's historical beliefs, ideals, hate, war, and we can step back and look at it from afar. Sometimes its hard to change the conversation in our brains.

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Beautifully said. (BTW: Today’s Note was written tongue firmly in cheek 🙂)

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As meandered today, along a short path, through the bush park between my home and our little suburban village shopping centre, I looked up at one of the several magnificence 75 plus year old gum trees, in awe as its 75+ feet spread out into a blue sky & sunshine.

-No worries about inflation, or investing

-Not bothered at all about carbon pollution, food for living!

No offended about red tail cockatoos stripping its gum-nuts and littering the path

- No not thinking or ruminating about much at all really.

Methinks as a 7 and 1/2 score years, “You lucky son of a gum nut!” observer.

In bush scrubland you lumber maker, will most likely continue living a life of swaying leisure & provide pleasure to others, whom fly in or passing by, look up in wonder … and for many, many more years past my own last bed time.

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Loved this!

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Mar 17Liked by Joel Bowman

You can tell how much the Ruling Pigs hate and fear Milei by the nastiness of the 'insinuendos' floating through the air here in the US. I hope he has a good security outfit because he will certainly need it. Freedom and well-being?! Can't have that! BTW, you are making me sick with all your beautiful places there in B.A. Hope you appreciate that.

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Mar 17Liked by Joel Bowman

You cheer me up!! Thanks! r

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Yes, there may be lots of inspiring things to see and do in BA, but don’t you feel just a little unsafe, even threatened, with all those people wandering around maskless in public? Not a single child that I see is wearing a mask either! What are the parents down there thinking? That’s taking risk just a little too far, IMO.

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We haven't hit the road for a while... is that the situation up north these days???

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I’m on a world cruise and many passengers still wear their masks on the ship religiously. (Except when eating in a dining room surrounded by hundreds of others, of course. Airborne germs disappear when you’re eating, apparently). Some passengers even don a mask while running furiously and puffing away on a treadmill in the ship’s gym! I have contacts in Taiwan and judging from photos and videos they share, a large portion of Taiwanese are still convinced the mask protects them from certain death. And you don’t want to kill Grandma, do you?!

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These poor people are victims of a powerful, coordinated, well-funded scare campaign, designed to keep them isolated, fearful and dependent on their statist overlords. For some, the pandemic inside their head will never end. It's a sad state of affairs. Hopefully they wake up eventually and return to the free world. We'll be ready to welcome them back. Meanwhile, enjoy the cruise. Sounds epic!

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Oh my... I really feel for them... that must be terrifying. Tragic that people have been made to be so fearful.

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I hope readers realize this was written as sarcasm.

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Mar 17Liked by Joel Bowman

There, there, poor tormented soul. What shall we do?

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Mar 17Liked by Joel Bowman

It must be awful for you to face such a dilemma. As we of the cold windy north face more of a miserable in like a lion March.

Keep up the great work

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