How I feel today:

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Aptly crafted and captured the message in rich poetic couplets I dare say.

Hubby was my stereo, and someone stole him. Now I sit in silence, with too much time to think….

Car Radio   by 21 pilots. 

I ponder of something great
My lungs will fill and then deflate
They fill with fire, exhale desire
I know it’s dire my time today

I have these thoughts, so often I ought
To replace that slot with what I once bought
‘Cause somebody stole my car radio
And now I just sit in silence

Sometimes quiet is violent
I find it hard to hide it
My pride is no longer inside
It’s on my sleeve
My skin will scream reminding me of
Who I killed inside my dream
I hate this car that I’m driving
There’s no hiding for me
I’m forced to deal with what I feel
There is no distraction to mask what is real
I could pull the steering wheel

I…

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The state of the Clinton email investigation

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Media Nation

Based on what we know so far, FBI Director James Comey’s bombshell letter is likely to lead to very little. Having upended the election campaign with just days to go, Comey owes it to the public to tell us exactly what the FBI knows as soon as possible.

Here’s what we seem to know: Clinton and her top aide, Huma Abedin, exchanged emails (now, there’s a big surprise, eh?). Some of those ended up on devices used by Abedin’s estranged husband, Anthony Weiner, because they shared a computer.

It is already well established that Clinton used a private email account for her official business, that she showed bad judgment in doing so, but that she did not commit a crime. Somewhere between many and all of the newly discovered emails may be duplicates that the FBI has already looked at.

There is nothing new here—just more evidence of what a mistake…

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Arlin Sorensen's Thoughts on Scripture

Jeremiah 20 has the prophet in a tight spot. Pashhur, the priest and chief officer of the house of the Lord has had enough of Jeremiah.  “Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upperBenjamin Gate of the house of the Lord”.  Jeremiah was beaten and had to endure painful public disgrace.  He wasn’t only regarded as a false prophet, but surely also as a traitor, discouraging the people who still trusted in help from God or Egypt against Babylon.  Jeremiah doesn’t back down, but when Pashhur lets him out of the stocks the next day, he gives God’s words to him.

“I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends…. And you, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity. To Babylon you shall go, and there you shall die…

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What is Developmental Editing and Does Your Story Need it?

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A Writer's Path

light-bulb-editing

by Katie McCoach

Developmental editing may be an unfamiliar term to some writers and authors. This is, in the most basic of definitions, is editing that enhances your story.

Have you ever read a book and felt the plot was all over the place, or the characters were inconsistent? Maybe the climax wasn’t strong enough or the story was missing that obvious inciting incident. Hell, have you ever started a book and just didn’t like it?

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