After-Orts #83
Someone told me the other day that “racecar” spelled backward is “racecar.” Amazing. This is why I quit drinking and got my mitral valve replaced, so I could see beyond the average life expectancy and it’s quite worth the wait, to live in a state of wonder.
— Garrison Keillor:
https://www.garrisonkeillor.com/writing/
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More News From All Over
- New York changed the rules of a gun buyback program after a man with a 3D printer netted $21,000 -
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/11/new-york-gun-buyback-rules-3d-printed-parts
- in Arizona, the doctors of a woman who terminated her pregnancy are being sued by the embryo’s estate -
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/abortion-arizona-personhood-roe-wade-1234598516/
- in Nanaimo BC, a man who had glued himself to a bank has been barred from possessing adhesives outside his home -
https://www.cheknews.ca/protester-who-glued-himself-to-nanaimo-bank-sentenced-with-condition-he-cannot-possess-adhesives-1093516/
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Words To The Whys
Ups and downs and ins and outs,
Forevers and nevers and whys.
Befores and afters, dos and don'ts,
Farewells and hellos and good-byes.
Life is a string of perhapses,
A medley of whens and so whats.
We rise on our yeses and maybes,
Then fall on our nos and our buts.
-- Patricia T. O'Conner, Woe Is I