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A Holiday Service on Christmas Day 2018, Portland. I will tie in the picture at the end...just you wait and see! I heard from some of you about the blog. Thanks for the kind and encouraging words. Particular shout out to my dad and brother (to keep him from being associated with my blog, which are my thoughts alone) he shall remain incognito. He knows of whom I speak. My dad really wouldn't care. He is an impervious 80 something long past giving a rip what people think and blowback. I have three brothers. Ponder this... I am fixing to start packing for my travels Buffalo to visit my good friend H. We are going to go to the Eagles vs. Bills game tomorrow. The Eagles got flogged by the Cowboys on national television last Sunday night. I sensed it was going to be a stinker after the first turnover. Only confirmed by the second turnover. Both turnovers lead to touchdowns. Eagles down by 14 points before Joe Philly Six-Pack could chug his first can Natty Ice. I went to bed. ...

I have to share an inside thought: I have thought recently about killing off this Bierkergaard Blog. I have been at it for a decade or so. I have seen many other blogs begin, launch, crash, and then die. The blog world is a junkyard. Once bright and gleaming, now rusted and decrepit. Warning: This becomes a rant...if you are still game, hop on for the ride. I have a larger readership than most. I am approaching 400,000 page views overall ( 373,543). Yet, sometimes I feel as if am blogging into the abyss. I get some feedback occasionally from my dad who is probably my most faithful reader which really flatters me. My dad is no fool and he also really doesn't subscribe to my faith perspective in the least. Besides knowing that it is important to me and that religion is useful to guide social norms. He is Nietzsche-Lite. A philosophical Nihilist who is not nasty about it. Intellectually, he thinks Christianity is not really True but has truths in it if that makes any sense. T...