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The Greatest of These...

The Greatest of These...

and the Because of Pickleball

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Well-built man in a navy short sleeved shirt and khaki shorts walking in a clearing with a small boy.  The man’s head is slightly bent and has his hand on the left shoulder of the boy.  The boy has his arm wrapped around the man’s left leg, with his head nestled in between the man’s left hand and the man’s left hip.

The Greatest of These…

But the greatest of these…

More of it? Yes, please…

has been the response for centuries

Causing some to covet

that which isn’t theirs

The end of which spells only trouble

But

It’s also the force that

keeps us on course

When our world

has exploded

and nothing is left

but to attempt to make sense of the rubble

But the greatest of these…

There’s th…

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