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I wish I was a child

in the apple blossom groves

watching my barefoot girlfriend

swinging from the trees

in her light summer dress

with the sun glistening

in her golden hair…

We've upgraded the blog software based here...

Some of the new features in Blog 2 include:

• Blog Customization - users may customize their blogs in the same manner that they can customize their user profiles (introduced in 3.7).
• Group Blogs - users may allow other users to post to their blog.
• Sidebar Blocks - users may create custom blocks to display in their sidebar. These blocks can be rearranged by drag and drop.
• Custom Pages - users may create custom pages to be displayed

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When my children were young we lived in rural Connecticut in an area abundant in milkweed, the preferred food of Monarch caterpillars. Each summer at the end of July we would wade through a field filled with milkweed near our home searching under each leaf for the tiny eggs laid by the female on her way south. Not every plant had an egg but each plant that did for certain would have only one egg. Nature's...

A current thread on Too Hot started by 95Gator http://www.gatorcountry.com/swampgas...ad.php?t=90371 has a number of us embroiled in a discussion prompted by a thought experiment question he posed. The original question was directed more towards wishing Islam to disappear, but as threads frequently do this one twisted, turned and deviated from its original proposition. Religion in general, not just any specific one, has come under scrutiny and become the subject of whether or not it serves...

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