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Mark J. Gesk's avatar

Very interesting. I often find that priests have great second vocations that are interesting and sometimes beneficial to society.

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Heather King's avatar

This is fantastic, Jim! I'm not sure that today the good Father would be allowed to dig up jumping cholla at random and cart them home, (desert lands perhaps protected), but no matter--living in Tucson as I do, I can attest to the fact that cacti of all kinds are unreservedly malicious when it comes to sinking their needle-like spines into your fingers, shins, thighs, shoulders, arms and any other unprotected part of your defeneseless body. Sometimes I feel I spend half my life sitting under a lamp with a pair of tweezers--and this is mostly just from walking around my yard observing, praising and watering! I've come to admire, though, their orneriness and general resilience. And I totally want a jumping cholla ashtray and stand.

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James K. Hanna's avatar

Heather, thank you … and be careful out there!

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Robert Mitchell's avatar

Thanks for another great Obscure fact. There's beauty in everything from God, but in things of men, not so much.

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