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Welcome to the Hotel California

I often feel like I am an extra or cast member in one of those poorly made science fiction movies in which the government has ordered everyone into isolation.   I feel bad about those who have to go to the hospital as it feels like they will never return.   The only thing missing from this sf weirdness is the standard silver jumpsuit that seems to be the attire of the entire planet – though we never see the entire planet.   Nor do we really know for certain if the jumpsuit truly is silver as it is a black and white movie.   We’re grounded to our houses for our own protection while a selected few get to be out in the public eye for “our protection” – and they end up being eaten by the monsters or disintegrated or whatever.   And those few who are left in their homes have absolutely no clue what is going on.         There are truths and there are rumors, precautions and scare tactics, internet jokes and so forth. ...

I Received My Books!  I am SOOO EXCITED!

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       I am still considered to be a board member of the library and evidently have my own out box at the library.   Our board president LOVES to read and has committed to keeping the library open - even if she has to use her own personal books.   We've received a great deal of donations, and she has gone through various books to see which ones will be sold and which could be shelved.   Whenever she finds the word "Mormon" she automatically sets it aside and asks me if it is something I might be interested in.             I finished a book just over two weeks ago.   She had left it in my box.   It took just two weeks for me to read "Rumors of War" from the Children of Promise series by Dean Hughes.   Though the initial publication of the books are over 20 years, I had never read any of them before, and after reading the first in the five book collection, I had to have more. ...