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Okay, let's get into my thought of the week.

Nature's taking its course.

This is a relief, let me assure you,

but as we know from the wildlife documentaries,

you know, lions tearing zebras apart and so on,

it can be a hard watch at times.

But regardless of any actions any of us might take to affect change in this rotten system,

nature is relentlessly taking its course as it must.

By this, I mean specifically a separation,

a separation all but complete and a mutation

that's clear to see.

Sometimes I look on at the emerging mutation and think of it as the accumulated

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