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The Declaration of Dependence

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Have you ever experienced a power outage during the day or night and quickly learned just how dependent you are on your phone, your TV, your air conditioning/heating system, your lights, and your appliances?  Yes, indeed!  Frustration and boredom soon follow! I'm not sure if many of us get super excited at a power outage.  I always think that it would be no big deal and that I know how to do without it to a certain extent.  Every time I face this particular situation, I realize just how many things I can't do or can't live without.  I think I've been mildly disturbed by this and even disappointed in myself.  On the other hand, it makes me immediately feel gratitude, even deep gratitude for all that I have, for modern day convenience, and the literal power of electricity. This is the most obvious example of waking up to a personal Declaration of Dependence.  I grew up without some modern-day conveniences.  I would like to think that I could be reso...
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Phenomena

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  Have you ever experienced something that could not be explained?  Something that was strange, out of the ordinary, or even, as some might describe, supernatural?  I would use the term spiritual rather than supernatural.  Well, I have had some of these types of experiences throughout my life.  I know I have written about a few of them in past posts on this blog, but there are more.  I might get a little " Archie's Weird Mysteries " on you...............Yes, I used to watch that cartoon, and I loved it!  I'm reminded of this through my recent entertainment endeavors into the Netflix show Riverdale and re-watching Smallville.  Smallville seems to be more along the lines of Archie's Weird Mysteries than Riverdale does.  Riverdale is actually based on the Archie comics, and I found some disappointment at finding more of a teenage soap opera drama that circulates around sex, suicide, north vs. south gangs, murder mystery, and mental illness....
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