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February 16, 2022 | Wilson Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont will host a grand opening of its newest retail store in Indian Land on Friday, February 25. The new building is located off of Hwy 521 across from the Indian Land Schools and next to the Rec Center that is currently undergoing renovations. The 7,000 square foot building features a donation drive-thru. The store will celebrate its ribbon cutting at 9:45 a.

This column is “Retro spotlight,” which exists mostly so I can write about whatever game I feel like even if it doesn’t fit into one of the other topics you find in this newsletter. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link. It’s pretty fair to say that Indiana Jones, on the whole, has been an inconsistent franchise. Raiders of the Lost Ark was a tremendous debut for both the character of Jones, played by Harrison Ford.

Around 5,000 years ago, ox-drawn wagons rumbled out of the Eurasian grasslands and into the Danube Valley of eastern Europe. Led by scouts on horseback and accompanied by herds of sheep and cattle, they went west through what’s now Moldova, Romania, and Bulgaria. They passed the curving arc of the Carpathian Mountains and left the Balkans behind, eventually traveling all the way to the Great Hungarian Plain. This little island of grassland in the middle of Europe became their new home.

In many organizations, institutions, churches, businesses, and schools there forms somehow and in some way what C.S. Lewis brilliantly described as the “Inner Ring.” One may reasonably claim every organization has an Inner Ring, that the Inner Ring is inevitable because of the hierarchy and leadership structure. Photo by Dylan Gillis on Unsplash Lewis’s concern was for graduates of King’s College London (1944) and how much a desire to be in the Inner Ring would dominate life for them.

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When lockdown hit in 2020, A., a mom of two who lives near me in New York’s Hudson Valley, had a five-year-old and two-year-old. “My kids are very physical,” she says. “We were living in a townhouse with no yard and every playground around us had shut down. My children were literally bouncing off the walls.” And making holes in them. A. didn’t want to destroy their rental, plus her next door neighbor complained constantly about the kids’ noise.

In Episode 69 of the Masters in Motion Podcast, we have the distinct honor of hosting Adrian Bozman, CrossFit’s esteemed Competition Director and a pivotal figure in shaping the landscape of the sport. Known affectionately as "Boz," his extensive experience as the CrossFit Games Head Judge and a CrossFit Seminar Staff Flowmaster provides him with a unique perspective on both competitive and everyday CrossFit training. This episode is powered by Thirdzy, your go-to for game-changing sleep recovery.

Jayd Henricks is President of Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal. He served for 11 years at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), six as the Executive Director of Government Relations. He has written extensively on the Church in America. He shares his thoughts about the USCCB, faith, and politics in this WWNN interview with Francis X. Maier. Tell us a little about your service as Executive Director of Government Relations at the USCCB.

(business intrudes, so another off-cut from my current manuscript, I’m afraid…) “Carcinization” is a curious phenomenon of evolutionary biology.  It refers to the tendency of a wide variety of life-forms to develop, over time, into something that looks like a crab.  It’s happened several times, which is to say that there are five or six types of beast which you or I would just refer to as “crabs” but which are quite definitely genetically distinct from one another.