Welcome to the Commune podcast. This is Jeff Krasnow. Many of you may receive my weekly

Sunday commusing article where I address a breadth of issues from the spiritual to the sociopolitical.

And on occasion, I will also record an audio version of these articles and release it here as a bonus episode.

So today's recitation is about two non-controversial topics, sex and religion.

But first, a brief note of awkward self-promotion.

I have recently released a compendium of all my 2020 commusing articles.

The book is titled Communion, 2020 and the Middle Path,

back to reason, morality, and each other.

You can purchase one if you are so inclined at onecom slash communion.

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So without further delay, here's this week's commusing titled An Act of God.

We absconded to the woods.

Not just Skyler, the girls and me, but the cousins, too.

I brood over a brood of women.

Sky and I have three daughters, and her brother Jason has two.

And of course, there were friends in tow. Heaven forbid they spent any concentrated time with just their parents.

We planted our estrogen footprint at a spacious hip camp tucked into a redwood grove near Leightonville.

This wasn't exactly a Therovian retreat into

nature for solipsistic wool gathering. Minding and feeding eight teenage girls is hardly a meditative

pursuit. It was delightful, though. Sultry summer days, lounging languorously by the riverbank, sprawling dinner

spreads and cantankerous duels of Texas Hold'em. We won each other's pennies as we good up the cards

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