Inflation is only 3.2%! Things are getting better! Really? All that means is that number is added on top of the 9.1% from last year. No one’s seen the prices for food come down, right? Any other price drops at the retail level? Nope. Sure we’ve seen gasoline drop from the outrageous highs, and they’re starting to go back up as the busy summer driving season ends. Remember when those same prices used to drop a little headed into fall?

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I believe if we all took the following to heart, we’d all, no matter race, ethnicity, gender, orientation, whatever, would get along a lot better and there’d be fewer personal, and international conflicts. Want to know what it is? Are you willing to take it seriously? Here we go:

No one really cares what you think.

That’s it. Start applying that to everything you say or write. You’ll be better off.

I used to ask my Christian friends, why they attended church every week. The responses were varied, of course, but came down to the same thing: I feel better afterward. Well and good, but what is the purpose of attending church services? Some will say it is to commune with god, others say it is to affirm a community of believers. My experience, as a Christian was all of the above plus wanting to learn, then apply what I learned to my life. Know any Christians? Those that are regular attendees of church? Have you ever asked them why they attend church? I’ve an idea of what most would answer: some form/use of the word habit.

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I’ve yet to understand why young people today do not understand why they may need to learn a certain subject in school. When I was a kid, it wasn’t always clearly explained, that really depended on the teacher, but when a teacher did take the few minutes to tell those anxious faces why it is important for them to understand a subject like algebra and how they, without knowing, probably use it in their lives everyday. History? The analogy of learning from the past so that we don’t repeat it has always been a decent beginning.

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There’s a lot I haven’t figured out yet, but the Podcast Project is moving along. I found what should be a decent microphone and headset for not too much money. Believe me, a person can spend, well, hundreds, on that alone. Then it came down to what platform to use. IT has been Spotify that has provided a lot of help to date but I have more investigation to do there.

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