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Neti Dread Pots

If you don’t have anything better to read, I’m here for you. Case in point: The press has been reporting lately on several deaths involving flesh eating amoeba in neti pots. In case you don’t know about neti pots, I googled it for you. Used for years in Indian Ayurvedic practice , a neti pot…
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Desert Solitaire

There’s a quote by Edward Abbey that I’m reminded of this time of year. “The thing I like about Christmas in the Desert is the conspicuous absence of Christmas in the Desert” Not to Scrooge or anything but the desert this time of year is perfect. A time to separate from the tinsel and reflect…
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Pagan Babies

Dad died today eight years ago. The only reason I bring it up is that it always reminds me of the grand irony we sometimes call life. Dad was a decorated WW II vet, a small business owner and a devout Christian, of the Episcopalian flavor. Too much so for my taste. Needless to say,…
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The fat guy in the fuzzy suit, part zwei.

So, in our last installment we discussed one of the versions of St. Nicholas, the Greek. The other version I alluded to says that St. Nicholas may have wound up in Germany and worked his way over to the Netherlands to become “Sinterklaas”. Flying reindeer might have had something to do with turn-of-the-century Byzantine travel…
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