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Graven Image
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TURKEY is in the oven. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
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Two grandchildren came down from Denver, bringing their parents. Now Motherboard is about to fix things for the Thanksgiving Dinner at church. It started years ago because everybody came from far away and going home for the holidays wasn't always an option. Turkey is provided and everyone brings side dishes - and a guest if they can catch one. We plan to exhibit the grandchildren.
And yes, the Brown Chile has been simmering since ten last night….
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Graven Image
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Jedijudy posted quote:
Bet they won't give me the carcass to make soup. *whine*
We always go out with a few of our friends, but I must fix a small turkey so we have leftovers. My favorite part are always those leftovers. Sandwiches, pot pies, and of course the carcass soup OH MY. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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We recently got a book called Save with Jamie by Jamie Oliver, which has some brilliant ideas for using all sorts of left-overs; I imagine the chicken ones would work with turkey.
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jedijudy
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We're going to have a post-Thanksgiving celebration with our kiddos on Sunday! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif) I'll bet if I ask nicely, Daughter-Unit's mom-in-law will let me take the carcass if I promise her some soup!
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I am shameless. I took my own jumbo ziplock bag to my brother- and sister-in-laws' house and asked if I could take the carcass home for soup. They were glad to oblige. Tomorrow the house will be filled with good smells!
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A whole turkey seemed rather a lot of bother for just the two of us, so we got a stuffed turkey roll from the butchershop in a local market. No carcass for soup, but a lot less work, and it would have taken us forever to finish off a big bird. But then we have another Thanksgiving on Sunday afternoon with some other family who were elsewhere today.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Hope you have lots to be grateful for.
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solution: multiple small turkeys, one per household represented. Everyone gets soup stock. plus it cooks quicker.
so full. very satisfied. We shared a feast with former co-workers of mine, and when we worked together it wasn't great. but we're inlaws, so I sucked it up and dealt. turns out, when they're not co-workers, they're kind of lovely. a nice evening and not a hint of football. (sorry, but I hate the stuff.)
a few years ago, I had tgiving with friends, one of whom made a pumpkin pie that was to die for - with a gingerbread crust. last year, I tried to replicate it by making gingerbread, pressing it into the pie plate, and baking. but I whoopsied and added baking powder, so it rose and became a giant cookie. I scooped out the soft center and added the filling anyway, and it was delicious, but ugly.
I asked the friend what she did - apparently it was like a graham cracker crust but with stale gingersnaps. So I tried that this year. it tasted delicious, but was really butt-ugly.
So, oh well. I fail at copying my friend's crust. next year I'll just make her fly up here and cook for us.
I also made way too much pumpkin pie this year - only ginormous pumpkins at the market. so we're surrounded by very ugly but yummy pies and leftovers coming out the wazoo. I see a week ahead of pie for three meals a day, which works, because it's going to be tech week at the theater - no time to cook.
here's hoping I can fit the damn costume tomorrow!
happy thanksgiving, my fellow Americans. I'm grateful for you all, and for this silly tug.
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jedijudy
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Originally posted by comet:
I see a week ahead of pie for three meals a day, which works, because it's going to be tech week at the theater - no time to cook.
I see no problem with that!!! You will get your veggie quota that way!
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happy thanksgiving, my fellow Americans. I'm grateful for you all, and for this silly tug.
Amen, comet. Amen!
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What we do is cook a big turkey and freeze most of it in 1 to 1.5 pound packages. Then we can take a bit out at a time for casseroles or hot turkey sandwiches or whatever. The carcase freezes too, but takes up a lot of freezer space.
We went to friends' yesterday and will be doing our own turkey, for just the three of us (self, Gander, and niece) on Sunday.
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jedijudy
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
I'll bet if I ask nicely, Daughter-Unit's mom-in-law will let me take the carcass if I promise her some soup!
I have the carcass! Saturday will have to be soup day, but better then than never. (And I am sharing the results with D-U's in-laws, of course.)
I have a carcass! I have a carcass! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Mmmmm ... you really can't beat home-made soup made with proper stock.
I'm going to be doing some soup manufacture soon as well - we've got about half a chicken in the fridge, and a leg of lamb that D's planning to cook for tomorrow's supper, both of which have bones ...
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Graven Image
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Going down to 20F tonight. I have a box full of bubble wrap I have been saving, I am going to try wrapping the outdoor pipes with the stuff. It seems like it should work. Snow due on Friday.
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Another thing you could do is allow the faucets to trickle. Moving water does not freeze as quickly as still water.
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
quote:
Originally posted by jedijudy:
I'll bet if I ask nicely, Daughter-Unit's mom-in-law will let me take the carcass if I promise her some soup!
I have the carcass! Saturday will have to be soup day, but better then than never. (And I am sharing the results with D-U's in-laws, of course.)
I have a carcass! I have a carcass!
MMMM. I usually grab out carcass, but let my brother have it, as I had bigger plans. Saturday, I ran down to Whole Foods and purchased a turkey split breast and leg. Rub with a special spice mix, into the smoker over pecan wood for three hours, and you have the best turkey you have ever had. Based on the current Thanksgiving logistics, smoking a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner wouldn't work out. Too bad for my family.
Re: the cold, we are looking at our fist sub-zero temps tonight. Not to call you out over your 20s- I am a firm believer that cold is cold. But thanks to my brother, who purchased and restored an air compressor off of Craigslist, my pipes have been empty for about a month now.
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Graven Image - another thing to consider is heat tape. ask at the hardware store. it's pretty easy to instal (assuming you can get to your pipes) and then you just need to plug it in. for bigger oomph you could then wrap the pipes with insulation and cover that all with tyvek, but temps in the 20s probably don't need more than heat tape.
you're looking at maybe 30-40 dollars (depending on how much you need), carefully reading directions (don't buy the strong stuff if you have pvc! trust me! melts stuff!), and then perhaps 45 minutes on the outside for installation. I'm not a handyperson type, and I can pull it off.
Also ask about the heat trace - it's harder to install, but works better and is easier to maintain. if your plumbing is pretty easy to accommodate the trace, it's worth it.
plug it in when you drop below freezing, unplug when you're above freezing (it does use a lot of electric, but not as much as, say, a fridge or something)
trickling water does work if you expect the cold snap to only last overnight to a full day or so, but eventually the ice builds up anyway.
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Pearl B4 Swine
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My Th'ing hostess (Rector's Missus) was bagging up some of everything to take home with me, and asked if I wanted some turkey. I said 'sure!' I'll take the wings please. She looked at me kinda funny, but said OK. I made wonderful broth out of them, which I turned into "highly flavored gravy", LOL.
So I had more dinners for days: mashed taters, stuffing, and quite a lot of meat off the wings.
I just looked at the North Dakota forecast- yikes, lots of -O HIGHS coming for them. [Son2 and his family]. And what in hell is the need for giving names to these "storms"? It makes me cross, giving a cold front or a snow storm a name with personality and whims and motives. GGGRRRRR
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jedijudy
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Dare I say that we could possibly break high temperature records? It'll be in the mid to upper 80's here, so no frozen pipes for us. But then again, we only manage cool water from the tap instead of cold when it's so warm.
Should I get me coat?
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The son near Denver has 12 degrees going down to -5 tonight. We expect the cold air to slide down the mountains to freeze us tomorrow.
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Hi from an Aussie, currently visiting family in Ohio. Unseasonably warm here at present. In fact, back home it was unseasonably cold in Oz.... Colder than here. Weird. But I am informed it will get very cold soon.
Arrived here three days ago. Still getting over jet lag. It is fabulous to be with my sister and her family. They are amused by what I think is amazing, like.... The range of grocery products... Driving on the wrong side of the road.... The absence of good cups of tea in cafes.... And being with them!
Oh, and coming into this thread, and posting!
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Rowen,
Beware warm December weather in Ohio. It never ends well. ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif) Hope the Buckeye state treats you kindly.
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Thanks for the freeze tape advice folks. Woke to water on the kitchen floor. This cannot be good. Pipes inside the house frozen even though I left heat on. My guess is they are frozen someplace on the outside. RATS
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Aw nuts! the plan there is to climb under the house (or wherever) with a hair dryer. could take an age. sorry 'bout that.
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Everyone here is in hunker down mode expecting the weather to turn seriously nasty over the next 12 to 24 hours. My regulars have all been stocking up on beer to go, in case the roads are bad tomorrow LOL.
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We're supposed to get that storm by Sunday morning. Our church is having its annual meeting on Sunday. I hope no one asks for a quorum count.
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In a refreshing change, our local weather man, nicknamed "Guessing Gary", was actually right. It's pretty nasty here, wind, sleet, freezing rain, with temps hovering right around freezing.
My husband had to go to work this morning. He drives commercial truck, a local route, hauling industrial waste from factories. His bosses, who preach safety with the fervor of a Baptist minister, decided that it was safe for him and his co-workers to get out in this mess today. Dangerous enough on the roads in a personal vehicle, treacherous in a semi with a fully loaded trailer of sloshing waste from the papermill, along winding country roads that are slicker than snot. I'm going to be on pins and needles until he calls to tell me he's coming home. Not very All-Saints-y, but I really want to punch his bosses in their collective noses today...
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Comet you are now taken as the voice of authority in the six houses in my California neighborhood. All I need to say is, "Comet said," and all ears perk up. Thanks again.
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Really? that just made my day!
it has been a day filled with hassles and difficult people and explaining and re-explaining things and trying to keep a cork in the drama spewing (and all of this before I go coach my teenagers or act in a show!) and I've been feeling like I'm holding my mental shit together with dental floss knots and prayer.
And now, I can say somewhere in Cali there's a neighborhood who thinks I'm a keep-your-shit-from-freezing expert. That. Is. The. Best.
tell the rest of the 'hood I'll be coming begging for advice next time it gets above 75 and I think I'ma gonna DIE. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
PS - if I tell my contractor buddies this, they will laugh until they pee themselves. So I'm not going to tell them.
Hey, if you learn stuff by making every mistake in the book, so what? at least you learned, right?
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quote:
Originally posted by comet:
...Hey, if you learn stuff by making every mistake in the book, so what? at least you learned, right?
Quotes file!
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jedijudy
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
I have a carcass! I have a carcass!
I have soup! Yummy, thick, full of goodness, soup.
*happy sigh*
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mmmmmm ... Where's that drooling smilie when I need it?
Having said that, I've got lots of home-made chicken stock in the freezer, and some I made today that's about to go into the freezer, and D. has made his magic chicken casserole with dumplings for tomorrow's lunch, so I really can't complain.
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Well, another cold snap is on it's way and probably snow. Breaking out the 4 wheel drive truck to take us to church tomorrow, because I'm on the Praise Team leading music.
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Another morning of roads covered in sheets of ice here. Yesterday, my neighbor's dog, a rat-like car-chasing mutt, slid completely across the road trying to chase us as we drove by. The look on his face as he slid into the ditch was pretty entertaining.
We met some new friends last night. A couple of boys from out of town were up here duck hunting and came out to the bar afterwards to watch the football. Hubby's never met a stranger and gets to talking to them. Next thing I know, it's 9 at night, the grill is fired up outside (in 25 degree and sleeting weather) and we're having an impromptu wild-game BBQ. My weekend bartender, who swore she would never ever ever eat wild game, chowed down half her body weight in duck and deer. All in all, a really great evening.
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I'm living in fear of the hairdresser from Hell.
at the Talkeetna theater, most of the time we had to do our own hair and make-up. I suck at this, but I did my best.
at THIS theater, we have hair and make-up people. Awesome! but the hair lady doesn't understand that my hair philosophy is "low maintenance" and so the orders she gives me are... alien.
my role requires BIG hair. my hair naturally goes big, but not in an attractive way. (think, Medusa) so after she figured me out, I have marching orders. I'm to wash my hair every goddamn day (who does that?!?) put mousse in it wet, and dry it before I see her. so far, every day I've done it wrong. either no mousse, or not enough mousse, or it's still wet when I go to her, or something. Yesterday I left the mousse she gave me at the theater. So rather than risk her wrath (she's very difficult!) I have to go buy mousse (I'm assuming it can be found at the store?) so I can be properly prepped for her to have her way with it.
I must do this because I'm getting paranoid about her yelling at me.
I've learned a new rule: do not piss off the backstage queens.
I assume buying grocery store mousse is going to get me in trouble for not getting the good stuff, right? I can't win.
I'm really looking forward to having low maintenance hair once again.
PS - our weather is lovely. 16F (above) and overcast and NO WIND!
I'm sure your all's weather will calm down shortly and mine will go to hell. just in time for a 24 hour ferry ride on Thursday. yippee!
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We got our ice-storm as advertized. I had planned to go to church, but when I saw how much ice I would have to scrape off the car windows, I decided to skip it.
It's supposed to be warmer tomorrow; I will let Mother Nature's ice removal system take care of the problem.
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It was a gorgeous morning!
On way to church at 7:30 (we practice an hour before 9:00 service and it takes us 1/2 hour to get up the hill for church) I was taking photos of the fog over the mountains and snow covering everything. Magical. The road crew did a good job, and JB ended up shoveling the walkways at church because only he and a deacon were there at this early hour.
Praise team went well.
Christmas music always makes me smile.
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Snowing here. It's supposed to turn to rain though, with no accumulation. Bah, humbug.
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What an unholy mess trying to drive home from church yesterday. While we were singing & praying etc. 3" of snow came down on top of icy roads. A normal 20 min. trip turned into 2.5 hours! Cars and 18-wheelers skidding everywhere. Miles of stand still and creep East out of Hanover. Main roads blocked by big trucks crossways the road, either front end or back end off the road in the ditch.
And then the crap announcement that the road crews were "caught off guard" by the horrible road conditions. This is HORSE HOCKEY. We've been promised ice and snow on Sunday AM for at least 2 days.
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comet, I love the idea of you meeting your "hair consultant" and presenting her with moose.
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Great idea - strap on a pair of antlers and call it "big hair"!
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Having just had a birthday and being of a certain age I noted that it is possible that I could go to bed one night and not awake in the morning. So one should at least have on matching PJ's should the undertaker come I had started to think. All of that is out of the window now that the weather has gone to below freezing for over a week. If I die during the night this is what they will find me in. Two pair of socks, silk long johns, flannel PJ's and a knit cap. Yes I said a cap. and sometimes I add a hoodie. About 2 AM I warm up and start peeling off the layers. So if I kick the bucket abut 5 AM I should be fairly presentable to those who morn. Also cremation is starting to look like a warm and friendly option. I WANT SUNSHINE, AND I WANT IT SOON.
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Carex
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Originally posted by Graven Image:
...Also cremation is starting to look like a warm and friendly option...
You and Sam McGee.
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There are strange things done 'neath the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold
and the northern trails have heard strange tails that would make your blood run cold.
and the northern lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see,
was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge I cremated Sam McGee.
all from memory, but I'll bet I'm close.
some of us have to memorize Service in High School. in Anchorage, he actually has a high school named after him.
the Cremation is good, but for sheer evocative ... ooomph of what interior AK (and Yukon) wilderness is like, real Spell of the Yukon. He got it PERFECT.
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Here's "The Spell".
Gah. he made me cry again.
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Evil Dragon Lady, Breaker of Men's Constitutions
"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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Mamacita
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Good poem!
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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
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Carex
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Originally posted by comet:
Here's "The Spell".
Gah. he made me cry again.
One of my favorites, too. A lot of his work is doggerel, but there are some that really touch the soul. Has a lot to do with why my first computer job in San Jose lasted just 18 months and I ended up working in the islands in Alaska instead.
Like The Call of the Wild:
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Have you gazed on naked grandeur
where there's nothing else to gaze on,
Set pieces and drop-curtain scenes galore,
Big mountains heaved to heaven,
which the blinding sunsets blazon,
Black canyons where the rapids rip and roar?
Have you swept the visioned valley
with the green stream streaking through it,
Searched the Vastness for a something you have lost?
Have you strung your soul to silence? Then for God's sake go and do it;
Hear the challenge, learn the lesson, pay the cost
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comet
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right on cue - we start reciting Service and the sky opens. We've gotten about 10 inches so far and the NWS is calling for a storm total of 30-36 inches by tomorrow morning.
it's beautiful. "plumb-full of hush to the brim" and I walked into my mothers house (she always has the coffee ready early) to the Messiah blaring on her stereo and she's belting it out while loading the stove. Greets me with a "Good MORNING Pumpkin!" and there just ain't enough coffee in the world for that.
Part of my moving here was do do the outdoor chores for her, so I've already shoveled and hauled in a sled-load of wood, but at the rate it's coming down I'll be shoveling hourly or so until this storm passes.
We live way up the side of a very steep hill and I'm not looking forward to the drive to work this afternoon. it's one of those roads where you put'er in first, ride the clutch down the hill and pray.
and for all of the hassle, it's beautiful. and hey, I'll get my workout whether I like it or not.
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Then listen to the Wild -- it's calling you.
Have you known the Great White Silence,
not a snow-gemmed twig aquiver?
much love from the Great White Silence. me and my shovel salute you all.
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"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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Our "Great White Silence" was just a light dusting, finally melting off as the temperature gets above freezing for the first time in a week. I did rig up a heater for the cat's water dish to keep it from freezing when we got down to 12F. This morning the roads were clear and the sun starting to break through the overcast - except for one intersection where it was still snowing lightly.
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Have you whistled bits of rag-time at the end of all creation?
We're living in the city now, but sometimes you find the end of all creation in unexpected places, such as outer reaches of the Costco parking lot...
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Mamacita
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Good poem!
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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
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comet
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(I'm wondering how many times we can get Mama to post that... )
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