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1. 23 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Eagles here. We didn’t have a tree when I was growing up.

2. 25 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   I Corinthians: “…faith, hope, and love.” Love is a translation of “agape” from koine Greek. There has been debate about the translation of agape into English for a very long time. I was taught that agape is most accurately translated as “acts of love.” Very similar to what Christians mean when they say that the evidence of the love of Christ is through an individual’s loving relation with and acts of love towards others in the world.

3. about 1 month ago on Arlo and Janis

   Yes! Arlo is right-on as usual. Strike this ridiculous conversion of nouns to verbs.

4. about 1 month ago on Arlo and Janis

   My mother was a depression-era kid. About a week after Thanksgiving she started making the weirdest meals with the remnants of the turkey. Finally making soup with nothing more the bones themselves.

5. about 2 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   Too much “show biz.” Singers and dancers doing routines for the cameras. “Celebrities” are the highlights of the floats.

   I told my kids 30 years ago, that Santa Claus made a special trip to be in the parade and this was their one chance to see the real Santa before he went back to the North Pole. They were actually excited to watch the parade waiting for that one quick look at the real Santa.

6. 3 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   One man’s wall is another man’s floor.

7. 3 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   The hurricanes spooked me and I live 1,500 miles away.

8. 3 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   A sincere thanks for the correction. My apologies and I am embarrassed. I looked it up just now and you are right that it was October 4th. For years I had October 7th in my head. Who knows why? Having acknowledged that I had the date of Janis Joplin’s death wrong, I still think that choosing “Me and Bobby McGee” was a combination of Kris Kristofferson who wrote the song and Janis Joplin who made it famous. But the real truth is, “What do I know?”

9. 3 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   Janis Joplin died October 7th in 1970. Kris Kristofferson died 11 days ago on September 28th.

10. 3 months ago on Arlo and Janis

    1970: Jimi and then, three weeks later on October 7th, Janis. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…”