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ovenbird The English language.
Case in point:
4 is spelled four.
14 is spelled fourteen.
40 is spelled forty.

WHY?! What happened to the "u"? It should be "fourty." It makes no sense at all. Maybe it's a symbolic nod to mid-life crises? Forty is missing the "u," a sacred vessel, a holy grail, and it becomes compelled to search the earth for it. Maybe that's why people in mid-life start getting this niggling sense that there's something missing and start tearing their lives apart looking for it. What's missing, is "u."
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raze leaf_blowers.

in addition to the hideous sound they make, it seems to take people a lot longer to fling their foliage where they want it to go than it would to simply, i don't know, rake it like us simple cave-folk used to do before the advent of these expensive noise-makers. there's something absurd and a little sad to me about watching someone spend an hour painstakingly blowing bracts from their driveway to the road, knowing more will take their place before the setting of the sun.

i guess maybe i'm the odd one out. because i don't want to eradicate nature's confetti. i want to roll around in it and make myself a living braid of leaves.
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ovenbird The amount of money I just spent on a beautiful wreath of cedar and juniper berries and pinecones for my front door. (But it smelled so good, I couldn't resist. It may at least slightly improve my holiday_spirit.) 251128
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