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How important are books? Well, God thinks that books are so important that He inspired mankind to create a book of His words. The Bible...66 books written over a thousand of years. When skeptical scholars posit that the Scriptures were some type of inside job, a conspiracy, promulgating an oppressive religion, I wonder if they have actually read the Bible in depth. The Bible attacks the powerful, not the weak. It extols service rather than self-centeredness. What self-hating 1% of history would pen a book that would skewer their entire way of life? Not very likely. And we all know that the poor have the ways and means to write and print books... In fact, Jesus is called the Word. Heavy. And words created the Universe. Should make every English Lit and MFA student feel a surge of importance. Even if jobs are hard to come by. The great news is that if one loves words, a lot of what the world puts value on fades in importance. Even the most lonely and introverted can find solace...

I struggled mightily to come up with a title for this week's blogpost. After a feverish second or two, The Grate Commission came to me. Puns are the primary school of humor. Can be witty depending on the depth of the reference. Like when I was in college, where the Study (actual last name) Twins roomed together in Burrowes Hall and I called them "Wombmates." Or when I asked a dude named Hair what the roots of his name was/were.  Or, when I titled our Resident Assistant Larry, Lawrence of R.A. Bia . I think I was funnier in college. Enough of Memory Lane. On my thrice weekly run to the river and back, for the last several months, I saw a sewer grate in the 'hood collecting more and more trash like a colander. McTrash from the local Big Arches down the road and assorted garbage. Someone asked on Twitter recently what this generation would leave behind to future generations. All I could think of was plastic. It grated on me that the grate was becoming the ...