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Lady on the Corner

In the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector (Luke 18:9-14), Jesus tells of the Pharisee who thanks God that he is not like the...

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1 day ago
3 min

Lady on the Corner

In the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector (Luke 18:9-14), Jesus tells of the Pharisee who thanks God that he is not like the...

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Mar 17
7 min

Retreat

We all need a place. A place to retreat. A place to mull over our innermost thoughts. To put it simply, a place to think. It can be a...

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Mar 13
5 min

Women Talking

It always seems we get behind in our movie watching. Suddenly the Academy Awards are upon us, and we have to cram for the exam. We don’t...

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Mar 10
6 min

Spring Training

Almost seventy-three years old. Lifelong baseball fan. Never attended a Spring Training game. Sad. That was me. Until this week. A...

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Mar 4
5 min

I Lift My Lamp

In the context of a world where everything is partisan, everything is divided, everything pushes us to make an affirmative choice between...

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Mar 1
2 min

Don We Now Our Welsh Apparel

St. David's Window, St. David's Cathedral Happy St. David’s Day (Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus) * When you ask the Irish who is their patron...

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Feb 24
13 min

Breaking Records

[A dear friend recently invited me to address a luncheon meeting of retired members of the NC Bar at the NC State University Club. A...

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I'm John Constance of Raleigh, North Carolina. In 2021 I became frustrated with the negative tone and content of social media and decided that the world needed a more positive alternative. I have been blessed with a wonderful life and an interesting career in Washington, DC. I decided that the people, places, and things that I had experienced could be used to brighten your day. So I started this blog.

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Ted Widmer has written a very readable history of President-elect Abraham Lincoln's journey from his home in Springfield to Washington DC for his first inauguration in 1861. The account is filled with railway lore, new details of this grueling trip, and an enlightening account of what it meant to the pre-war preparedness of the Union. I had heard accounts of the Baltimore assassination plot, but never in this detail. Lincoln on the Verge, Thirteen Days to Washington; a Simon and Shuster Paperback published in 2020.

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