16 September 2004
Just lately, I’ve noticed a tendency for us to become selfish, or, at kindest, self-absorbed. You’d think that material prosperity would make a people more generous, not less; surely the more one has, the more one would want to share. But it doesn’t appear to work that way. The more we accumulate [...]
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9 September 2004
My grandmother’s house was built in the late 1860s out of materials salvaged from ships destroyed in the Great Bahama Hurricane of 1866. The house is made of wood, raised on limestone blocks. It weathered the five awful hurricanes of the 1920s, and stood. It weathered Betsy in 1965, and stood. It took [...]
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