Good Morning Friends from across Locals! You Digital Neighbors frequenting Padre's, The Bigots, Fascinating People and Triggeratti that hustle & bustle around the Triggernometry, Phamily, Phriends and the Dawn Patrol that joined the circus at Phetasy and finally the Refugees that rode the wave out of Big Tech and gave life to the idea of Locals at Rubin Report. Love you all!

While I choose not visit Malice and Scott Adams, I do support their efforts. I watch enough of their content and it seems only just to offer something in appreciation. I have sampled the Gutter, visited Tulsi and Timpf, tried out New Discourses and the Babylon Bee and often see other communities that look so inviting and promising, but one only has so much time. Not enough time to be a member and usually not enough funds to be a supporter, but I do appreciate the gathering of like minded creators that Locals has brought together.

The internet offers us a unique experience of friendship with people we may never meet in person but have already experienced some of their character and personality. I don't think they are any less real that meeting in person, just more difficult and slower moving because we cannot see the non-verbal's and nuances that form interpersonal communication in person. However, we have all met and have been in relationships with others where the only things connecting them was geographical proximity. Not a very human experience of friendship or community, we have an spatial relationship with everything else, 99.9% of which are just things. Critters and people are different, and not even all critters, it is hard to say one has an emotional bond with a reptile, but maybe it is possible. Anyways, on to some thoughts about friendship, one of my favorite topics. You don't need many, but most of us benefit from a few close ones.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. - James Boswell

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. - President George Washington

We shall never have friends, if we expect to find them without fault. - Thomas Fuller

SNOLLYGOSTER - A dishonest, corrupt, and unprincipled person, especially a politician. 19th Century American Slang.

And finally, an Autumn Hillside along one of the river roads in MO. Happy Sunday to all of my Locals Neighbors and Friends! A busy day at the parish with our Sausage Dinner, I'll be posting photos over at Padre's.