“Love is a grave mental disease.” -- Plato

Today's Tids Issue 4,324

It's a loverly day for finding Love:

Whether walking near winters shore where misty breezes frost your face. Or up along trails on mountains high where sun glistens most brightly of all, you are feeling the romance of life that comforts your inner soul. When you add to the sun and the winds and the rolling seas, the green fields that frolic over gentle hills, a love who ignites your heart, the world becomes one together, of beauty, of understanding and deepest giving. Human love is as majestic as high mountains caressed by the endless sea.

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

If you haven’t noticed, we are smack in the middle of a new era of fallacious misunderstanding called “False Equivalences”. Yes, it has become popular to pose logical sounding, emotional driven theories that supersede facts. False Equivalence: A logical fallacy in which two completely opposing arguments appear to be logically equivalent when in fact they are not. Journalists use the concept very often, especially when using anecdotal evidence to represent a whole of society.

The Question:

What are considered the 5 Best and 5 Worst dating cities in the USA?

The Headlines:

--Lovers Across The Nation Feel Hearst beating rapidly.

--Stocks Down After Reports OF US Retail Sales Drop In December; Drop Said To Be Biggest In Nine Years; Unemployment Claims Up.

--JP Morgan Launches JPM Coin; Morgan Is First Major ank To Crate Own Digital Currency.

--Senate Holding Official Confirmation Hearing On AG Candidate Barr; *Omar Demands She Be Allowed To Join To Attack Him.

--Michael Bloomberg Will Spend $500 Million To Stop Trump.

--In 2018, Americans Lost $143 Million In “Romance Schemes”.

--Goldman Malaysia Misdoing Could Cost Giant A Year Of Earnings.

A kiss is a perfect way to stop a conversation from going in the wrong direction.

You have to wonder if all of the liberal, vegan candidates running for President, have gone vegan primarily to get rid of Chick-fil-A!

Why does following the Ten Commandments scare so many people?

I Thought I had the common cold, but I now I think I just have a case of spring fever.

“Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.” –From a Hossier Farm Wife.

The richest cities in the USA are Atherton Ca, Cherry Hills Village Co, Scarsdale Ny, Los Alto Hills Ca, Short Hills NY, Hillsborough Ca, Old Greenwich Ct, Bronxville NY, Highland Park Tx and Darien Ct

Men have a better chance of moving to one of these communities if they are married! Yes, new research once again proves that married men make more money and more important, live longer.

Living longer in love is a special kind of romance – he or she won’t let me trip and fall as I walk on shaky legs. Relying on each other for different strengths is better than a box of chocolates. Especially if you are diabetic!

I thought I was allergic to cats but I bought two and find that I’m feline fine.

You may have read here that I lost my landline service for about a week. I’m thinking of going back to Verizon, asking them to lose it again. I now realize how pleasant it was before the return of a ringing phone which I’m finding quite annoying, especially since most are scams. And they all come just as I have opened a good book or taken the first bite out of one of my meals.

Aristotle: “Love is a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”

*Fake news.

The Answer:

The ten US cities where it is easy to find a good date leads off with Austin Texas as number 1, followed by Charlotte, San Fran, Minneapolis, Little Rock, Phoenix, DC, Durham, Columbus and Denver! The worst city to find a reliable date is Palm Bay Florida and that is followed by new Haven Ct and then Providence RI, Riverside, Kansas City, Albany, Des Moines, Albuquerque, Worcester and Cleveland. Ouch.

As you may have gathered from this Tids, I am just an old romantic who loves to smile at the thought of people in love. Two holding hands on a big city street Who feels a happy tear forming when love shines in a couple’s eyes.

Love is grand. Divorce is a hundred grand.

Oh, and by the way – Happy Valentine’s Day, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!

The Parking Lot: Chapter 86 continues…

   The two looked at each other, before Martha spoke. Martha always spoke first, and Noah never minded. “Well, Phebe, we do have a lot of old records from the family. And as we all know quite well, between the Hicks and Howlands there were intense rivalries, and even extreme hatred. And while haven’t read everything, I know some discouraging language was sued often a when writing about your family.” Martha smiled slightly and Phebe nodded. “I’m sure there are records in this village about your family and what they did to get growing to where they are today.

   Noah looked at his wife, and smiled inwardly. “There is a lot of information about the early days of Richard and Eliza, and the growth of their family. A lot about his friendship with Joseph of the Wampanoags. And of course, the friction there initially when the colonists attacked his brothers King Phillip and Watuppa. But, I know you understand that anything that was friction two generations ago, has passed,” she looked at Phebe who was attentive, in a pleasant manner, “especially between our families.”

   The seconds that followed seemed like minutes. “Of course I understand that,” Phebe answered unequivocally.” And I heard that your home had been ravaged, and that some people seemed to make up information about what was taken or seen. “Phebe’s ‘s face reddened slightly. “And you know that some of our less than understanding family always resented your grandmother Musatta. I might say, some here hold your heritage against you…despite your very English name of Martha Prescott.“ Phebe laughed at that. And Noah and Martha felt their bodies drain of tension. And, Phebe ded, “Your son is taking very good care of my daughter!>.

   Martha and Noah rose to leave, but Phebe motioned them to sit. “One more thing. I will keep my senses up for anything that I hear concerning your worries. The time are changing rapidly, and we need you and your farmers as much as you need us, But most important we are finding we aren’t a bunch of ogres looking for ways to hurt each other.” Then Phebe said something a jolted the two, “Most of the people in this community were happy when “Big Howland” had his unfortunate accident.” She let out a breath. “It changed everything.”