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I’ve been thinking about the term renewal in the last couple of days. Isabel Allende said, “We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things.

Somewhere back down the road, I read: “the fear of need is a need itself.”

Many times, I have amended the statement, “If there is ever a nuclear holocaust, the only things that will survive are cockroaches and Keith Richards,” with other things impossible to kill.  I’m adding bind weed, or Morning Glory as we call it around here, to the amendments.  

Last week, we noted several things that God uses as “barriers” on the road to Hell.

Unmask COVID-19 funding for states

(FRANKFORT, Ky.) – The Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, Kentucky’s first and only free-market think tank, urges the legislature to act in limiting the power of executive orders issued by governors in declared states of emergency.

It’s hard to know where to start.  The rabid news cycle continues with near-hysterical daily headlines ranging from the just plain silly to the absolute absurd to outright, fear-mongering and lies.  And, this was just about a week’s worth of news - as it is defined these days.  

This week, I will bring to you more random facts that I learned from my quarantine reading and viewing.

In October 2017, Better Homes and Gardens stated, “70 percent of Americans say they’re trying to get healthy” (p. 172). Being healthy is one of my goals, and it’s a constant effort. As I collected magazines for recycling recently, I saw numerous articles about healthy living. Six of those articles are mentioned below.

On Saturday, my granddaughter, Sabria, and I went to Walmart.  I haven’t been inside that store since this pandemic began, and I swore nothing could get me to go back inside until there was a vaccine for the virus.  I underestimated the tug of Nickelodeon slime and a box of kitchen matches on a nine-year-old with allowance money.  Sabria loves all things slime, and she wanted the box of matches so she could show her mother all the colors the flame on a match contains in that one flicker of light.  We built our own spectrograph the day before then tried it on different light sources.  The ma