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Today’s generation is defining its soul by the latest electronic handheld whatever-it-is. In one little electro-magnetic gad-get is your phone, your camera (stills and movies), your stereo player and dictation recorder. You get the weather, news, sports, stock reports, a satellite view of your house and a GPS feature that can tell you how to get to wherever from wherever on the planet. You can type, text, read and/or hear a novel, or the Bible and the Koran (for political correctness), video conference and tell everyone you just got out of the shower and are now brushing your teeth on a social networking internet website (plus the latest craze of sending out a portrait of your birthday suit). If you are ignorant of Facebook, you are really stuck in the stone age (about 20 years ago). Twitter?

St. Patrick’s Day is an opportunity for the world to celebrate Ireland’s patron saint and Irish culture with family, friends, food, and fun. Many St. Patrick’s Day traditions have been passed down through generations. This includes various foods and recipes that are native to Ireland that have spread around the globe thanks to the vast Irish diaspora.

Vivian Fontenot celebrated her 101st at Camelot Brookside in Jennings March 4, 2021. She was born March 4, 1920.

It was a casual discussion about trees: oak trees, pine trees, willow trees and cypress trees, to name a few.

(metrocreativeconnection.com) Lent is a 40-day period that begins on Ash Wednesday and culminates with Easter Sunday. For faithful Christians, Lent involves prayer, reflection and sacrifice, much in the way that Jesus Christ sacrificed himself for others. One of the components of giving something up is abstaining from eating meat on key days during Lent, particularly each Friday.

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