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subscribers this is Chris Flannery with the Claremont Institute. I call this one God's in his heaven.

2020 seems to have spread like a virus into 2021.

A third of the way through the year, and still across the country, citizens bludgeoned into

isolation, locked in their homes by the latest mandate, huddled around computer

screens and cell phones hour by hour awaiting announcement of the next tribulation.

It was too much to take in, disorienting to the soul.

We fled in desperation to the free state of Florida.

Here this morning, on the seaside of Amelia Island,

the locals, breakfasting on the balcony at Tortuga Jacks,

occupy our minds solely with anticipation of sunrise

at 629 anti-Meridium Eastern Standard time.

Almost a minute earlier than yesterday.

Almost a minute later than tomorrow.

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