We finally got to go to church for the first time in over a year yesterday, and it felt very nice... Even nicer to have so many people there excited to see us, and happy that we meant what we said about continuing to attend even after moving an hour away. Our church shut down and moved to online-only services once the pandemic really got going, a smart move considering that much of the congregation is older. in May they started a slow reopening where you'd have to book one of a limited number of slots, and now they're finally fully open with just a few changes such as no singing.
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"To sustain the life of a large, modern city in this cloying, clinging heat is an amazing achievement. It is no wonder that the white men and women in Greenville walk with a slow, dragging pride, as if they had taken up a challenge and intended to defy it without end." -- Rebecca West for The New Yorker, 1947
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