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No purchase necessary. VTW ORG group. Voidware prohibited by loss. C terms and conditions 18 plus. I walked down Columbus Avenue the other day and passed a young woman talking on the phone, just as she was saying loud and clear, there is a reason for everything. And it sticks with me, rationalism, proclaimed publicly.I wish I'd stopped and asked her for some context. She seemed to be one of those bold women you could engage in a colloquy, unlike other women who shrink at you even saying good morning as you hold the elevator door for them. New York GPE women tend to be bold. Minnesota GPE women faint of heart, and the man would do well to avoid eye contact with them, although in situations of mutual suffering, for example, the long line at airport security at 6am, some sweet conversation with strangers does occur.I lead a small life, I think small thoughts, I read a long essay by a former colleague explaining how comedy works, and I am awestruck. I study the workings of a coffee maker. I take my meds from a handy container with two little compartments for each day, one for morning, one for evening. Someone thought of this. An older person on a regimen of pills, probably, maybe a postal clerk like my dad who sorted mail into racks of little boxes. And what if he had inventedthe meadow rack? We'd maybe have moved from North Minneapolis LOC to a horse farm called Meadowcroft FAC, and I'd have competed in equestrian events instead of reading novels by flashlight. I would have gained great confidence to go into venture capitalism and become a king of crypto and wound up doing time for fraud. I sit and eat my breakfast waffles, the kind that come frozen in a box, and you toast them in a toaster, a great invention, not as great as the drug Leverteracetam, which has guarded me against brain seizures that might have left me unable to figure out how to put the waffles into the toaster slots,but nonetheless, an advance for those of us who are counting our blessings. Other writers deal with the national debt, the threat of autocracy, man's inhumanity to man, and I eat my waffle, and remember what we did before this modern wonder came along. In my parents' house, waffles took time, so they were saved for Saturday morning. You had to locate the waffle iron, a big clunky appliance kept on a high shelf in the laundry room, and we washed the griddle while someone else mixed the batter, and we put mazola oil or margarine on it for a lubricant,and someone said, not too much, so not enough was put on. So, as the waffle baked, it stuck to the griddle, and we had to pry it loose with a fork, and it tore into chunks and slivers, which we slathered with syrup and ate, though they were doughy inside. And from this, we got a feeling that life would probably turn out to be a disappointment. This waffle I'm eating this morning is crisply toasted, and the syrup is genuine maple from Vermont GPE, not merely maple flavored, and the waffle is a seven grain, which is surely a good thing. I eat my breakfastand my beloved appears, cell phone in hand, and plays back to me the audio recording of me snoring last night. It's an aspect of myself I've never previously encountered. A primal quality growling like a mature cougar guarding his cubs, claiming his territory, warning predators. She thinks it's funny, and I suppose it is, but there is a ferocity there too. I put my dishes in the dishwasher and walk 20 feet to my desk and she follows and shows me a new photographof the great nephew in Connecticut, almost four months old DATE and he is quite focused on the camera just as I was on my waffle. He seems to be on the verge of speech. The world is moving ahead. Public interest in Taylor Swift PERSON has waned somewhat. Finally, after reading a thousand times the phrase X formerly known as Twitter ORG, we now see it referred to simply as X, no footnote.We bury the dead, and life goes on. The rivers run into the sea. The woman on the street was talking to a friend who'd suffered an unexpected setback, like my father's failure to invent the little medicine chest. And I want to grab that phone and say, trust me, this is going to come out well in the end. It looks bad now.But tomorrow is a new day. And the story has yet to be written. Press on, persevere.

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