Some guy on the phone: "Would you mind flying across country at your own expense for 2 days to speak for free? We'll waive the conference tuition."
Me: "Would you mind flying here at your own expense to wash my car for free? I'll provide the water."
While the cruise ship was performing engine maintenance and drifting in international waters, the Venezuelan navy vessel rammed it to force it into Venezuelan waters. But the cruse ship’s hull was reinforced, and the Venezuelan navy vessel sunk itself.
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
Read this gorgeous, haunting thread of scenes from giving away food during a pandemic, and then someone give this small-town diner owner / goddess of comfort food a book deal.