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A Calamity of Air-or: The Worst Flight of My Life
What you are about to read is a true depiction of the absurd events that transpired on my flight. These reflections do not highlight my best self. This was the reality of being pushed to the brink at 31,000 feet. To the left of me sat an older gentleman. He was courteous; however, there was an odor wafting up from his oversized coat. His puffy coat, harboring an unidentified smell, somehow began to expand, swallowing him up along with half of my arm. To the right of me sat a larger fellow, talkative, with a terrible case of sleep apnea. While I am fully sympathetic to those who need to…
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Teaching Thankfulness to our Children
The clouds begin to roll in. It was looking like it might be a bad storm. A voice thundered across the sky, “Rain shower, be a mighty downpour.” Immediately, the rain started coming down in ‘buckets and sheets’. It was the kind of rain that is referred to as, ‘raining cats and dogs,’ ‘a real frog strangler,’… the kind that flips your umbrella inside out and renders it worthless. Further up north, something very similar happened. The wind was blowing a little, but as it often does, it became stronger whistling about and in-between houses and cars. A whispering voice breathed, “Snow, fall on the earth,” and at that exact…
