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Discouragement is not unlike a virus.

There is a side effect to living close to two state colleges like we do here in Moscow, and that is that the natives here have had to develop robust immune systems.

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I wrote last week about how the Devil’s potluck is a nasty downhill affair, standing out among events by how easy it is to attend. It is the ultimate “come as you are and not as you should have been” event. . . . However, like everything else the enemy does, it is deceitful. It is easy to get to, a thing you can simply relax into—but it is not easy in any other way.

The thing about being discouraged is that once you are down it becomes easier and easier to think of things to be discouraged about.

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