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    <h1 class="post-title">Preservation</h1>
    <div class="post-meta">[Colin Powell] · March 10, 2020</div>
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  <div class="post-content"><p>I once had occasion to eat mincemeat from a Ball jar processed eight years
before my birth. The dubiousness with which I approached that experience says
volumes about our ability to preserve things. Even preservation has it&rsquo;s limits,
you must agree. A ship, replaced board by board over five hundred years will, at
some point not be an exercise in preservation, but change. The slow
inevitability of change that causes mountains to fall and entire ecosystems to
die.</p>
<p>Our home among the stars has invited us for a short visit. Let us not, in our
determination to survive, forget that we are guests. Mind your manners, do unto
others, and don&rsquo;t try too hard to stay alive that you forget to live.</p>
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