Posted on 07/04/2018 7:05:17 AM PDT by Rummyfan
To every thing,” observed the sage of Ecclesiastes, “there is a season.... A time to be born, and a time to die; ... A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up,” et cetera. What this estimable observer of human life omitted from his bracing catalogue of oppositions is the fact that one side of these partnerships tends to be much easier to accomplish than the other.
To the eye of experience, this is obvious. How much time, labor, and inherited expertise go into building an automobile, a house, a city, a civilization. How quickly they can be destroyed by disaster or neglect.
Our house on Long Island Sound was built in 1924 as a summer cottage. Over the years, various owners added this and that, until it was a modest suburban home. Over the course of a few hours in October 2012, it was all but destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. It took more than a year, much labor and a lot of money, to put everything back together
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That sight (GLORIOUS!!!) is like sand in the teeth of every liberal leftist out there. LONG MAY SHE WAVE!!
Indeed it is and indeed she will!
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