These Ozarks Hills: The Day After the Election, We'll All Still Be Neighbors
Update: 2018-11-02
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This is Marideth Sisco for These Ozarks Hills. As Autumn graces us with one last splash of splendor this week before the rains finish stripping the trees of their showy palette, it offers a parallel skill of sweeping our minds clear of our troubles for a moment, offering one last grace note of honest-to-goodness goodness to our thoughts. Times are always tense in any year in any country when election times draw near. All our common courtesy disappears and we begin to break out old stored up and ill-used adjectives to describe people we have until now just thought of as our fellow citizens. We often fall from grace into invective, showing our worst side rather than our best. And some years are worse than others. I remember a scene from childhood long ago when my mother got into a bit of a tiff with her best friend over the politics of the time. I was very young and didn’t understand much about the conversation, but I remember the punch line very well. My mother, a staunch Republican,
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