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Yes, Ely Minnesota, my piece of 'paradise' - the Land of Sky Blue Waters, "God's Country" - Canoes only, so as not to tread on Gaia, close to the real promised land, Canada.
When I sit on my sauna deck, watching the water and setting sun, and know I have enough food to eat, disease is not eating away at my vitals, and I have two days off, this is the 'best of all possible worlds." Heaven on earth. A veritable pantheist panapoly of earthly delights.
You say you can't afford a place on the lake? Well, we got the cabin almost 100 years ago. No Yuppies in Paradise on our lot, though they are down the way in their massive god-given cabins, with 8 bedrooms and soaring ceilings. An American flag flapping in the wind, and Panthia for a bedroom partner, and eight boats outside.
My mother is ashes in the lake, as is my aunt. As I one day will be. No need to dress it up beyond that.
