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RE: Memoir Monday week 13 How would you describe your faith journey?

in Silver Bloggers4 months ago

Your family probably is far less crazy than you think.
Doesn't everyone think their family is crazy?
Aren't we all crazy?
If you were born and raised in Florida, you may have a bit more "claim to fame" with the craziness:

Florida Man is an Internet meme first popularized in 2013, referring to an alleged prevalence of people performing irrational or maniacal actions in the U.S. state of Florida. Internet users typically submit links to news stories and articles about unusual or strange crimes and other events occurring in Florida, with stories' headlines often beginning with "Florida Man..." followed by the main event of the story. --Wikipedia

Dave Barry, "A Swamp Tale," really nails the Florida character.
We in the Midwest tend more toward that Grant Wood painting, "American Gothic."
Or did - before the 1970s and meth and a lot of drug trafficking and unsolved murders.
Alligators!
Mosquitoes!
Moonshiners, gun-toting Bible-beating preachers.
You: "One of my uncles had a huge loudspeaker on top of his truck and he drove around town preaching over it." Me: Well, God bless him. He wasn't dealing drugs, right? There's that!

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I have heard the phrase Florida man. I was born here and so was my Dad, so we both qualify as "Florida man/woman". My husband has a saying when he sees something on the news, he says, only in Floriduh. He was born here, too. The same doctor delivered us and the same preacher married us but not to each other. LOL